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From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: misc/118249: moving a directory changes its mtime
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 07:00:05AM +0000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>  doing this before successful completion.  My regression tests haven't
>>  reported any failures from them but I think failures can occur for
>>  disk-full and I/O errors and the former is easy to test.
>
> Can't you test the latter using gnop?

Not easily, since I've never hear of gnop.  It's probably easily for me
to edit the kernel.  I suppose that for i/o errors we would want an error
quite often but on not more than about 1% of syscalls.  The errors should
be recoverable by retrying and no utilitites should crash from them :-).

Bruce