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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Which tests are bad to run?
Message-ID: <3691@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 19 Feb 91 20:58:32 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.233559.27425@agate.berkeley.edu> <9061@star.cs.vu.nl> <1991Feb19.190451.7625@cs.utk.edu>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <1991Feb19.190451.7625@cs.utk.edu> nall@cs.utk.edu (John Nall) writes:

>	I've run all the tests under 1.5 many times, and have not
>	had any problems.  So unless there is a really sneaky bug
>	in there, Andy is correct.

There are bugs... but not necessarily all that sneaky.

>	BUT.....but.....for people running Minix-386, it is my
>	recollection that one of the tests either should not be
>	run, or cannot be run.  Unfortunately, I am far away
>	from home and don't have the test number available for
>	easy access :-(  

test8 is the culprit. The bug shows up really badly under Minix386. It's the `I
forgot Minix mknod() takes four arguments' bug. I think that this will go away
in 1.6.11.

Earl
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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655778 FAX: 03 5655146
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