Re: lib/57314: ATF unit tests fail on 3 of 7 cases in program lib/libc/c063/t_utimensat on evbarm/Rpi 02W

[Jim Spath <jspath55%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/57314; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jim Spath <jspath55%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/57314: ATF unit tests fail on 3 of 7 cases in program
 lib/libc/c063/t_utimensat on evbarm/Rpi 02W
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:56:09 -0400

 (apologies if this double posts; gnats and gmail are like chalk and cheese)
 
 Michael wrote:
 
 > please run the mount command.
 
 $ mount
 /dev/ld0a on / type ffs (noatime, local)
 /dev/ld0e on /boot type msdos (local)
 ptyfs on /dev/pts type ptyfs (local)
 procfs on /proc type procfs (local)
 tmpfs on /var/shm type tmpfs (local)
 
 > atf uses ATF_WORKDIR and defaults to /tmp
 
 All 7 test cases succeeded when I set the ATF_WORKDIR to an
 NFS-mounted directory.
 
 The time man page shows noatime means "Never update the access time
 field for files" so that sounds like the probable cause.
 
 Jim
 
 
 
 On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 11:00=E2=80=AFAM Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.=
 de> wrote:
 >
 > The following reply was made to PR lib/57314; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: lib/57314: ATF unit tests fail on 3 of 7 cases in program li=
 b/libc/c063/t_utimensat on evbarm/Rpi 02W
 > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:56:07 -0000 (UTC)
 >
 >  jspath55%gmail.com@localhost (Jim Spath) writes:
 >
 >  >
 >  > >  /tmp being a FAT filesystem or do you redirect the test to use a FA=
 T fil=3D
 >  > esystem?
 >  >
 >  > Not that I am aware. The "disk" layout looks like this:
 >  >
 >  > $ df -m /tmp
 >  > Filesystem   1M-blocks      Used     Avail %Cap Mounted on
 >  > /dev/ld0a        58604      5215     50458   9% /
 >
 >  > $ cat /etc/fstab
 >  > # NetBSD /etc/fstab
 >  > # See /usr/share/examples/fstab/ for more examples.
 >  > ROOT.a          /               ffs     rw,noatime      1 1
 >  > ROOT.e          /boot           msdos   rw      1 1
 >  > ptyfs           /dev/pts        ptyfs   rw
 >  > procfs          /proc           procfs  rw
 >  > tmpfs           /var/shm        tmpfs   rw,-m1777,-sram%25
 >
 >
 >  Doesn't look like FAT (msdos) and the armv7.img uses ffs1.
 >  But to be sure, please run the mount command.
 >
 >
 >  > I can try with TMPDIR set elsewhere, or other permutations that might
 >  > shed light.
 >
 >  atf uses ATF_WORKDIR and defaults to /tmp.
 >
 >