please help a bit...

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Wed Jul 26 07:34:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:

 > You might have seen that I've been writing tests and fixing the
 > resulting bugs for the last couple of days.  Unfortunately I'm
 > completely alone in doing this.  We need many more tests.  Just a few
 > minutes ago I fixed two bugs in the AIO functions which should have
 > crashed all programs using the functions.

 > The areas where tests are especially needed are:

 > - wide char stream functions
 > - AIO
I've written today a number of tests for these.  After I get your
comments for aio_fsync, I'll send some more changes.  This way at
least all aio functions are at least executed.  I didn't add tests for
all specific cases.
 > - threads
 > - locale stuff

 > Please simply ppick the manual or a book about these things and write
 > a few senseless programs using these functions.
I'll try to write some more tests tomorrow.

Andreas

 > Besides testing, I _still_ waiting for somebody to step up to do
 > something about the RPC vs. IPv6 stuff.  And if it is only removing
 > the IPv6 code.

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