Re: Re: [PATCH] ftracetest: Replace usleep with sleep 0.000001

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Hi,

(2014/12/10 17:19), Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> usleep is a Fedoraism, it's not generally available on Debian based
>> systems AFAICS.
>>
>> GNU sleep accepts a floating point argument, so use that instead.
> 
> I tested it on busybox not Debian, sorry.  But it seems busybox's
> sleep doesn't support floating point argument..
> 
>   / # ls -l `which sleep`
>   lrwxrwxrwx     1  root     rooot       7 May 22  2014  /bin/sleep -> busybox
> 
>   / # sleep 0.1
>   sleep: invalid number '0.1'

I also have same result. Basically, ftracetest should be able to run on busybox.
So, I think we'd better check whether usleep is available, and if not, fallback
to sleep like as below.

  if which usleep &> /dev/null; then
    usleep 1
  else
    sleep 0.000001
  fi

Thank you,


-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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