Document the reason why ether tests in testsuite may fail.

No code changes.

diff --git a/test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c b/test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c
index c6e70e8..3b33874 100644 (file)
--- a/test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c
+++ b/test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
 
 #define ETHER_LINE_LEN 256
 
+/* This test requires /etc/ethers to exist
+ * and to have nonzero length
+ */
+
 int main(void)
 {
        struct ether_addr addr;

diff --git a/test/inet/tst-ethers.c b/test/inet/tst-ethers.c
index eb6280c..14b5a43 100644 (file)
--- a/test/inet/tst-ethers.c
+++ b/test/inet/tst-ethers.c
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 
 #define ETHER_LINE_LEN 256
 
+/* This test requires /etc/ethers to exist
+ * and to have host "teeth". For example:
+ * 00:11:22:33:44:55 teeth
+ */
+
 int main(void)
 {
        struct ether_addr addr;