IPC NS tests ?

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Kirill Korotaev (dev at sw.ru):
> > Kirill,
> > 
> > We are working on getting a few UTS namespace tests included in Linux
> > Testsuite Project (LTP) and were wondering if you (or anyone else) had
> > any test cases for IPC namespace. 
> > 
> > If there are tests for IPC NS, can you share those tests with us ?
> > And, do you have any plans to push the tests into LTP ? If you plan
> > to push them into LTP, pls let us know if you need help.
> 
> We do not test UTS/IPC NS directly.
> Instead we run LTP tests inside host and inside guest and make sure all
> IPC tests are passing.
> 
> So I guess LTP test should check only that unsharing works and people
> who need to test containers will run LTP then inside it.
> 
> i.e. I propose not to make LTP check functionality of IPC inside NS.
> Only interfaces.

So long as 'only interfaces' includes checks that, for example,
processes in different ipc namespaces see different objects by the same
names.

As far as I know such tests don't yet exist.  They should be written
and added to LTP.

-serge