2 # Ensure dd handles the 'nocache' flag
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19 .
"${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ..
/src
22 # This should not call posix_fadvise
23 dd iflag
=nocache oflag
=nocache
if=/dev
/null of
=/dev
/null || fail
=1
25 # We should get an error for trying to process a pipe
26 dd count
=0 |
dd iflag
=nocache count
=0 && fail
=1
28 # O_DIRECT is orthogonal to drop cache so mutually exclusive
29 dd iflag
=nocache
,direct
if=/dev
/null
&& fail
=1
31 # The rest ensure that the documented uses cases
32 # proceed without error
33 for f
in ifile ofile
; do
34 dd if=/dev
/zero of
=$f conv
=fdatasync count
=100 || framework_failure_
37 # Advise to drop cache for whole file
38 if ! dd if=ifile iflag
=nocache count
=0 2>err
; then
39 # We could check for 'Operation not supported' in err here,
40 # but that was seen to be brittle. HPUX returns ENOTTY for example.
41 # So assume that if this basic operation fails, it's due to lack
42 # of support by the system.
43 warn_
'skipping part; this file system lacks support for posix_fadvise()'
47 if test "$skip" != 1; then
48 # Ensure drop cache for whole file
49 dd of
=ofile oflag
=nocache conv
=notrunc
,fdatasync count
=0 || fail
=1
51 # Drop cache for part of file
52 dd if=ifile iflag
=nocache skip
=10 count
=10 of
=/dev
/null || fail
=1
54 # Stream data just using readahead cache
55 dd if=ifile of
=ofile iflag
=nocache oflag
=nocache || fail
=1