The Linux Test Project has been released for JANUARY 2017

Good news everyone,

the Linux Test Project test suite stable release for *January 2017* has been released.

Since the last release 211 patches by 28 authors were merged.

Notable changes:

o New testcases for:
- flistxattr()
- listxattr()
- llistxattr()
- getpriority()
- setpriority()
- sendto()
- dirtyc0w
- vti and geneve tunnel tests (network tests)

o New shell test library was added and many old and broken tests were rewritten to make use of it

o 36 syscall testcases were converted to the new library

o Many cases of bashism were fixed

o Experimental support for network namespaces has been added into network tests, which means that these test can now be optionally executed on a single testing machine

o LTP compiled for 32bit should now run flawlessly on 64bit kernel which is useful for testing the 32bit compat syscall interface

+ Usuall amount of cleanups, fixes and speedups.

Another bit worth mentioning is that LTP now uses travis to compile test latest git head.

The latest version of the test-suite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux and can be downloaded at:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/releases/tag/20170116

The project pages as well as GIT repository are hosted on GitHub:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp
http://linux-test-project.github.io/

If you ever wondered how to write LTP testcase, don't miss documentation at:

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/BuildSystem

Patches, new tests, bugs, comments or questions should go to to our mailing list at [email protected].

Cyril Hrubis
[email protected]