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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 06:46:48AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > There's a "ADDING TO THE FSQA SUITE" section in README file, basically
> > it's telling you to use './new' script to generate new test template. So
> > based on what type of new test you're going to create, you could run:
> > 
> > ./new generic	# new generic test
> > ./new xfs	# new xfs test
> > ./new ext4	# new ext4 test
> > ./new shared	# new shared test
> > ...
> > 
> > It finds the first free seq number and creates test template and a
> > default .out file in tests/<type> dir and add a new entry in
> > tests/<type>/group file.  You could just edit the template and update
> > the .out file with expected output from the test run.
> 
> Yes, I'd spotted the ./new script, but it's not as simple as that since shell
> scripts can't call system calls directly.

Probably best to place a program in src/ so that xfstests can make the
raw syscalls early while we wait for glibc to invent a wrapper.

--D

> 
> David