Re: [PATCH] selftests/ipc: Fix msgque compiler warnings

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Mon Apr 08 2019 - 16:01:51 EST


On Mon, 08 Apr 2019, Kees Cook wrote:

This fixes the various compiler warnings when building the msgque
selftest. The primary change is using sys/msg.h instead of linux/msg.h
directly to gain the API declarations.

Fixes: 3a665531a3b7 ("selftests: IPC message queue copy feature test")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

(Not really related to this patch)

Given that the selftest/ipc/ only consists of this test, I wonder if
the test should just be moved to ltp, where the ipc tests are a lot
more complete and robust -- and which I've been using for years for
basic testing code changes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for having ipc tests in the kernel, but it
seems rather impractical to have them in both places considering the
relevance of ltp in the community and how long they have existed there.

I'm also speaking on the basis that by ipc we are referring only to
sysv and posix flavors.

Thanks,
Davidlohr