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Re: [PATCH] iotests: fix copy-before-write for macOS and FreeBSD
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [PATCH] iotests: fix copy-before-write for macOS and FreeBSD |
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Wed, 6 Jul 2022 09:56:30 +0100 |
On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 at 08:39, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> Many of the iotests rely on output text matching. It's very fragile, always
> has been and always will be (unless we rewrite the whole test suite to not
> use output text matching anymore).
Maybe you could have a pre-pass over the "expected results" files
that substituted in the strerror text for the host it was running on.
That's probably a reasonably doable amount of work compared to
a complete testsuite rewrite.
-- PMM