Breno Leitao (leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com) fixed these for running on NFS mounted systems
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/writev/writev01.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/writev/writev01.c
index 5f48fd0..565e927 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/writev/writev01.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/writev/writev01.c
@@ -449,6 +449,8 @@
 		}
 		tst_resm(TINFO, "Exit block 8");
 	}
+	close(fd[0]);
+	close(fd[1]);
 	cleanup();
 	/*NOTREACHED*/
 	return(0);