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+
+/*
+ * YAFFS: Yet Another Flash File System. A NAND-flash specific file system.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Aleph One Ltd.
+ *   for Toby Churchill Ltd and Brightstar Engineering
+ *
+ * Created by Charles Manning <charles@aleph1.co.uk>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ */
+
+/*
+ * These are some dangly bits that need to be built to wrap up the rest of the yaffs test harness.
+ *
+ *
+ * This is also the place where extra debugging stuff might end up.
+ *
+ */
+ 
+#include "yaffsfs.h"
+
+int simulate_power_failure;
+int random_seed;
+
+int yaffs_print_constants(void)
+{
+	printf( "O_CREAT........%d\n",O_CREAT);
+	printf( "O_RDONLY.......%d\n",O_RDONLY);
+	printf( "O_WRONLY.......%d\n",O_WRONLY);
+	printf( "O_RDWR.........%d\n",O_RDWR);
+	printf( "O_TRUNC........%d\n",O_TRUNC);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int yaffs_O_CREAT(void) { return O_CREAT;}
+int yaffs_O_RDONLY(void) { return O_RDONLY;}
+int yaffs_O_WRONLY(void) { return O_WRONLY;}
+int yaffs_O_RDWR(void) { return O_RDWR;}
+int yaffs_O_TRUNC(void) { return O_TRUNC;}
+
+int yaffs_set_trace(unsigned int tm) { return yaffs_traceMask=tm; }
+int yaffs_get_trace(void) { return yaffs_traceMask; }