[PATCH 1/2 v3] tst-fanotify: new simple test

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 03-09-2013 12:59, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>
>> The minimum supported Linux kernel version for current GLIBC is 2.6.16 
>> and fanotify was added int 2.6.36 and enabled in 2.6.37. The test build 
>> is failing on older kernels that does not provides "linux/fanotify.h" 
>> (RHEL6 for instance). You will need to either disable the test 
>> altogether or sets it to return a dummy value if the kernel does not 
>> supports it.
> You're confusing two different things.  The minimum version for *running* 
> current glibc is 2.6.16, but the minimum *headers* version is 2.6.19.1, 
> and your issue is about the headers - the test already allows for fanotify 
> syscalls failing with ENOSYS.  We could reasonably increase the minimum 
> kernel headers version to something much more recent (3.0?) - it's easy to 
> use new headers by specifying --with-headers when building glibc.
>
Indeed I confused the required header to build GLIBC, but regardless it does
not change the fact the test still does not build with current minimum
supported headers.