Test suite

[Robert Schwebel]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:35:11PM -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
> I have been experimenting with running ltp, the linux test suite, on a
> machine using busybox with the linux-tiny patches applied. One clear
> issue is that ltp seems to have /bin/bash scripts in it which of course
> will fail since there is only ash and sh in busybox. Also, I am
> wondering if I am going to run into issues related to table sizes or
> other capacity limitations because of the linux-tiny patches.
> 
> Is there some other Linux test package that is more appropriate for a
> busybox environment running a kernel with the linux-tiny patches
> applied, or are there some options to running the ltp tests that are
> appropriate for my setup ?

The right answer for an open source project like LTP is: if they rely on
bash features, fix them to stick with sh syntax and send patches to the
maintainers. 

Robert
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