[PATCH] test/pcapng: add some leeway to timestamp test

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Jul 2 00:37:02 CEST 2026


The timestamp test sometimes fails on busy or emulated CPU's
add additional slop to allow timestamp to be up to 1 second
after capture was stopped.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 app/test/test_pcapng.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/test/test_pcapng.c b/app/test/test_pcapng.c
index 298bcbd31f..d14ea84f0d 100644
--- a/app/test/test_pcapng.c
+++ b/app/test/test_pcapng.c
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ valid_pcapng_file(const char *file_name, uint64_t started, unsigned int expected
 	int ret;
 
 	ctx.start_ns = started;
-	ctx.end_ns = current_timestamp();
+	ctx.end_ns = current_timestamp() + NS_PER_S;
 
 	ctx.pcap = pcap_open_offline_with_tstamp_precision(file_name,
 							   PCAP_TSTAMP_PRECISION_NANO,
-- 
2.53.0



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