Re: git-cvsserver test failures (still)

[Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>]

Hi.

Some investigations on this:

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:50:18PM -0400, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
> This appears to be from git-cvsserver.perl:148-9:
> 
>     req_Root('root', $line) # reuse Root
>        or die "E Invalid root $line \n";
> 
> This fails the test suite because die() exits with code 255 (checked  
> with "perl -e 'die'; echo $?"), which is outside what  
> test_expect_failure accepts (see t/test-lib.sh:179).
> 
> My questions become:
> 1) Why hasn't this hit anyone else?

die doesn't always quit with 255:

"exits with the current value of $! (errno).  If $! is 0, exits with the
value of "($? >> 8)" (backtick ‘command‘ status).  If "($? >> 8)" is 0,
exits with 255"

On my system $! is 9 for these cases and so it exits with exit code 9.

> 2) Is this where these tests are supposed to fail?

yes, IIRC

> 3) If it is, should the code be using print and exit 1 instead of die?

I think that would be the best solution, yes.

> 4) If not, should the test be altered to end with "|| false" or  
> similar so the test passes?

Gruesse,
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