IPC NS tests ?

Kirill Korotaev dev at sw.ru
Thu Apr 12 09:12:31 PDT 2007


Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 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.

Agree.

Kirill




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