Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Nov 2020 13:43:23 +0100 | From | Cyril Hrubis <> | Subject | Re: [Y2038][time namespaces] Question regarding CLOCK_REALTIME support plans in Linux time namespaces |
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Hi! > Virtualization is the right answer to the testing problem and if people > really insist on running their broken legacy apps past 2038, then stick > them into a VM and charge boatloads of money for that service.
Let me just emphasise this with a short story. Before I release LTP I do a lot of pre-release testruns to make sure that all tests works well on a different distributions and kernel versions.
Before I wrote a script that automated this[1] i.e. runs all the tests in qemu and filters out the interesting results it took me a few days of manual labor to finish the task. Now I just schedulle the jobs and after a day or two I get the results. Even if the tested kernel crashes, which happens a lot, the machine is just restarted automatically and the testrun carries on with a next test. All in all the work that has been put into the solution wasn't that big to begin with it took me a week to write a first prototype from a scratch.
[1] https://github.com/metan-ucw/runltp-ng
-- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
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