Re: [LTP] [BUG?] proc01: read /proc/acpi/event failed if acpi daemon stopped

[Garrett C. <yan...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Shi Weihua <sh...@cn...> wrote:
> An error message occured when i tested proc01.
> ---------
> proc01      1  TFAIL  :  read failed: /proc/acpi/event: errno=EAGAIN(11): Resource temporarily unavailable
> ---------
>
> If "service acpid start", this message will be turned to:
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> proc01      0  TINFO  :  /proc/acpi/event: known issue: errno=EBUSY(16): Device or resource busy
> ---------
>
> I think we should to add a check of acpi daemon's status in testcases/kernel/fs/proc/proc01.c.

    No, that's making things too complicated and won't scale as every
distro has developed a different means for specifying the status for a
service. Why not just add EAGAIN for that /proc node?
Thanks,
-Garrett