1Readme file for linktest.pl 2 3License: 4 5 Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2001 6 7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 8 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 9 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of 10 the License, or (at your option) any later version. 11 12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be 13 useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 14 warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 15 PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 16 17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public 18 License along with this program; if not, write to the Free 19 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, 20 MA 02111-1307 USA 21 22 23Overview: 24 Name: linktest.pl 25 Description: A regression test for links per file. 26 Linktest.pl is a simple test that attempts 27 to create a given number of hard links and 28 symbolic links to a single file. 29 30Files: 31 linktest.pl 32 README 33 34Availability: 35 Currently only available via internal IBM websites pending 36 legal review: 37 http://cvs.opensource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/testcases/fs/fs_perms/?cvsroot=ltp 38 39Installation: 40 N/A 41 42Use: 43 ./linktest.pl <number of symbolic links> <number of hard links> 44 45 ex: ./linktest.pl 1000 1000 would create 1000 symlinks and 1000 46 hardlinks 47 48Warning(s): 49 If execution is terminated, the hlink and slink subdirectories will 50 have to be manually removed (along with any links or files in them). 51 52ToDo: 53 I'll think of something. 54 55ChangeLog: 56 Date Version Author Reason 57 05/07/01 .99 martinjn@us.ibm.com Needed a quick regression test to 58 identify link limitations. 59 60 61Jeff Martin 62Software Engineer 63IBM Linux Technology Center-Test Team 64martinjn@us.ibm.com 65