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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2011-03-06 00:16:30 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2011-03-06 00:16:30 +0100
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community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites: Link to open_issues/open_posix_test_suite.
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[[!meta title="Fix Compatibility Problems Exposed by Testsuites"]]
A number of software packages come with extensive testsuites.
-Some notable ones are libc, gnulib, Perl, Python, GNU Coreutils, and glib.
+Some notable ones are [[glibc|open_issues/glibc_testsuite]], gnulib, Perl,
+Python, GNU Coreutils, and glib.
While these testsuites were written mostly to track regressions in the respective packages,
some of the tests fail on the Hurd in general.
+There is also the [[Open POSIX Testsuite|open_issues/open_posix_test_suite]]
+which is more of a whole system interface testing suite.
+
While in some cases these might point to wrong usage of system interfaces,
most of the time such failures are actually caused by shortcomings in Hurd's implementation of these interfaces.
These shortcomings are often not obvious in normal use,