Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/nolibc: add testcase for pipe

[Thomas Weißschuh]

On 2023-07-31 13:51:00+0800, Yuan Tan wrote:
> Add a testcase of pipe that child process sends message to parent
> process.

Thinking about it some more:

What's the advantage of going via a child process?
The pipe should work the same within the same process.

> Here we use memcmp() to avoid the output buffer issue.

This sentence is meaningless without the background from v1.
You can drop it.

> Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5de2d13-3752-4e1b-90d9-f58cca99c702@xxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan <tanyuan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> index 03b1d30f5507..2653ab8d5124 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> @@ -767,6 +767,41 @@ int test_mmap_munmap(void)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +int test_pipe(void)

Should be static and actually get called :-)

> +{
> +	const char *const msg = "hello, nolibc";
> +	int pipefd[2];
> +	char buf[32];
> +	pid_t pid;
> +	ssize_t len;
> +
> +	if (pipe(pipefd) == -1)
> +		return 1;
> +
> +	pid = fork();
> +
> +	switch (pid) {
> +	case -1:
> +		return 1;
> +
> +	case 0:
> +		close(pipefd[0]);
> +		write(pipefd[1], msg, strlen(msg));
> +		close(pipefd[1]);
> +		exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> +
> +	default:
> +		close(pipefd[1]);
> +		len = read(pipefd[0], buf, sizeof(buf));
> +		close(pipefd[0]);
> +		waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
> +
> +		if (len != strlen(msg))
> +			return 1;
> +		return !!memcmp(buf, msg, len);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  
>  /* Run syscall tests between IDs <min> and <max>.
>   * Return 0 on success, non-zero on failure.
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>