Re: [PATCH 4/4] selftests: Add basic posix timers selftests

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Mar 18 2013 - 17:26:48 EST


On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:54:02 +0100 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add some initial basic tests on a few posix timers
> interface such as setitimer() and timer_settime().
>
> These simply check that expiration happens in a reasonable
> timeframe after expected elapsed clock time (user time,
> user + system time, real time, ...).
>
> This is helpful for finding basic breakages while hacking
> on this subsystem.
>
> ...
>
> tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile | 8 +

I wonder if this should be tools/testing/posix-timers/, to leave room
in the namespace for other varieties of timer.

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