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Re: ROMFS in anoncvs
- To: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ROMFS in anoncvs
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 05:31:45 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: eCos Disuss <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
On 13-Jul-2001 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:05:23PM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> A little harsh; perhaps open() calls for nested paths fail.
>>
>> It does look like you are correct about the mode stuff.
>
> The filesystems root directory, is not a directory, and so it fails
> imeadiatly with my test program.
>
Odd - these definitions have been current in the tree for a year.
Perhaps my iPAQ demo works because it doesn't use pathname separators
(i.e. all the files are in the topmost directory and I just use the name)
>> The two things
>> I see to be done are:
>> * Change 'mk_romfs' to perform some mapping from the host file system modes
>> to those used by eCos.
>
> I sent a patch to Jifl last night.
We also got a patch from Richard Panton, the original contributor.
>
>> * Improve the test program so that it can be run automatically, thus
>> allowing it to be tested more thoroughly by our test farm.
>
> I've got some test code embedded in a synthetic application. I will
> try to hack it into a standalone test.
Thanks.