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Pitt: umockdev: record and mock hardware for debugging and testing

[Posted February 12, 2013 by corbet]

Martin Pitt introduces umockdev, a device simulation library. "The umockdev-run program builds a sandbox using libumockdev, can load *.umockdev and *.ioctl files into it, and run a program in that sandbox. I. e. it is a CLI interface to libumockdev, which is useful in the 'debug a failure with a particular device' use case if you get the text dumps from a bug report."

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Posted Feb 12, 2013 19:22 UTC (Tue) by geofft (subscriber, #59789) [Link]

> The code is hosted on github in the umockdev project; this started out as a systemd branch to add this functionality to libudev, but after a discussion with Kay we decided to keep it separate.

Heresy! It's not real free software unless it's merged into systemd! :-P