#!/bin/sh # Ensure dd handles the 'nocache' flag # Copyright (C) 2011-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ dd # This should not call posix_fadvise dd iflag=nocache oflag=nocache if=/dev/null of=/dev/null || fail=1 # We should get an error for trying to process a pipe dd count=0 | returns_ 1 dd iflag=nocache count=0 || fail=1 # O_DIRECT is orthogonal to drop cache so mutually exclusive returns_ 1 dd iflag=nocache,direct if=/dev/null || fail=1 # The rest ensure that the documented uses cases # proceed without error for f in ifile ofile; do dd if=/dev/zero of=$f conv=fdatasync count=100 || framework_failure_ done # Advise to drop cache for whole file if ! dd if=ifile iflag=nocache count=0 2>err; then # We could check for 'Operation not supported' in err here, # but that was seen to be brittle. HPUX returns ENOTTY for example. # So assume that if this basic operation fails, it's due to lack # of support by the system. warn_ 'skipping part; this file system lacks support for posix_fadvise()' skip=1 fi if test "$skip" != 1; then # Ensure drop cache for whole file dd of=ofile oflag=nocache conv=notrunc,fdatasync count=0 || fail=1 # Drop cache for part of file dd if=ifile iflag=nocache skip=10 count=10 of=/dev/null || fail=1 # Stream data just using readahead cache dd if=ifile of=ofile iflag=nocache oflag=nocache || fail=1 fi Exit $fail