Testing PolicyKit

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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David Zeuthen wrote:
| On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 13:05 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
|> Yeah, all of these problems have been fixed, and I will send a patch
|> blob upstream when I get functionality confirmed (other patches may be
|> required).
|
| Sounds good, thanks.
|
|> And the test suite assumes even more Linux-specific /proc things (like
|> open files).  I thought it would be easier to test PK in some realish
|> scenarios rather than port the test suite.
|
|
| Maybe _kit_get_num_fd() should return a ssize_t and -1 if the feature is
| not available. Though, I'd be surprised if FreeBSD didn't have this
| feature...

FreeBSD does but it's not as trivial as reading from a text file in
/proc.  Analysis of kernel structures is needed.

|
| I think it's pretty important to get the test suite to run; it covers a
| bunch of corner cases..

I guess since it's only for the test suite, I could just spawn fstat on
FreeBSD, and count the lines...

Joe


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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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