Re: [PATCH] tests: stop using private "dev" directory for losetup

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Jim.

I think I might have spotted a little typo ...

On 10/06/2012 11:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> This root-only test had been failing for me for a while.
> Something changed (kernel? losetup? SELinux?) about how device
> files not under /dev/ are handled, so I've removed the
> useless-for-loopback-files hack of using a private /dev directory.
> 
> From 478e472bf9f1c76b66a35ea75b45110152e5207d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:11:32 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] tests: stop using private "dev" directory for losetup
> 
> Something about Fedora 17's losetup changed so that using a private
> dev directory no longer worked.  Now, simply use /dev/ directly.
> * tests/t-lvm.sh: Don't use $G_dev_.  Not needed, and actually
> caused the t6000-dm root-only test to fail on Fedora 17.
> Also, redirect less to stderr: that helps diagnose failure.
>
... here: should it be s|stderr|/dev/null| ?

Regards,
  Stefano