Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] test: fix timeout in flags autotest

[Krzysztof Kanas <kkanas@marvell.com>]

On 12/11/2019 21:34, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:29 AM Krzysztof Kanas <kkanas@marvell.com> wrote:
>> On 19-11-08 14:45, David Marchand wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:05 PM David Marchand
>>> <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 11:21 AM <kkanas@marvell.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for review, hopefully this patch will addresses most of the sutff.
>>>>> Rest I will address here.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> +       const char *procdir = "/proc/self/fd/";
>>>>>> self is a Linux thing.
>>>>>> This won't work on FreeBSD.
>>>>> IMHO original code didn't worked on FreeBSD as well.
>>>>> I have created function to adress in third patch
>>>> Indeed...
>>>>
>>>> Well, wait.
>>>> Why do we need to close those file descriptors?
>>>> FreeBSD has been like this for quite some time.
>>> We don't know what this is used for.
>>>
>>> We know it does not work on FreeBSD, but this does not seem to be a problem.
>>> Introducing something more on FreeBSD is a risk with no actual benefit
>>> at first sight.
>> Ok.
>>
>>> Either we take only the first patch under a #ifdef EXEC_ENV_LINUX or
>>> we leave this as is.
>> I would like have that because ARM64 is main platform for me and this
>> makes the test pass, and fixes the difference between the comment and
>> the code.
>>> Krzystof, is this a problem for you if we postpone and investigate
>>> further for 20.02?
>> Not a problem.  I would like to have fix for EXEC_ENV_LINUX for now.
>> Rest, FreeBSD case and the decisions weather this whole code should be
>> deleted can be made later.
> In my tests of the original code, I never saw anything but access -1 ENOENT.
> Anyway, just sent a v4, your v3 patch, with just cosmetics and
> commitlog updated.

ACK. Tested, the v4 patch works fine.

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