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Disable tests on FreeBSD #58088
Disable tests on FreeBSD #58088
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Why do we want to disable these tests on FreeBSD? Are they just irrelevant on that platform? |
@waynew exactly, inotify/watchdog have very limited support on FreeBSD at this moment. I temporary disabled 2 shell tests as FreeBSD uses csh as root shell. |
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Should we change the message to indicate that? Like"Skip on FreeBSD - does not yet have inotify/watchdog support"
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@waynew that's a bit complicated, FreeBSD has kind of limited inotify support, it doesn't support working with symlinks, as well as directory notifications with |
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I like to have a minimum, but complete amount of information available - that way when future Wayne/Kirill comes looking into these tests after we've learned that there's good inotify support on FreeBSD that we can say, "Oh! We need to re-enable these tests!"
Otherwise we just assume that they need to be skipped forever, or have to dig into why the heck we skipped them in the first place
What does this PR do?
Disable tests on FreeBSD