Hoist your applications with petardfs

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 19, 2007 8:17 PM EDT
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The petard filesystem is designed to produce only errors -- but you can stipulate what conditions generate the errors and what those errors should be. That makes petardfs useful for system and unit testing -- for example, making sure that an application gives a sane error message if it fails to open a file, or if there is a read error at byte 5000 of a file.

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