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chris_wot on Oct 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Linux 3.6 Nearly Broke PostgreSQL

Does the Linux kernel have test suites?

rwmj on Oct 13, 2012 [–]

It has autotest.

It has gnulib (not a test suite, but a very comprehensive POSIX API test).

It has the poor saps who have to use it.

However none of these things gate commits to the kernel.

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