tst-posix_fallocate test failure

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Renaud Marquet <rmarquet@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm compiling glibc (2.8-20080929) for playstation3 (PowerPC 64bits).
> Building was ok but when I ran the test suite, there was only one
> failure, concerning posix_fallocate :
>
> "file size after first posix_fallocate call is 0, expected 1280"
>
> It seems the function does nothing at all although do not send any error
> code. I checked fstat64 function work correctly on another file, so the
> problem comes from posix_fallocate.

This is very little information. Have you tried to debug the test?

Cheers,
Carlos.