From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n194Wlw9219288 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:32:47 -0600 Message-ID: <498FB128.4060008@melbourne.sgi.com> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:29:28 +1100 From: Greg Banks MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] [PATCH] acl: various improvements for test/run References: <20090108015355.613058570@ifup.org> <20090108015418.699729152@ifup.org> <200902090229.47550.agruen@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200902090229.47550.agruen@suse.de> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Andreas Gruenbacher Cc: tes@sgi.com, brandon@ifup.org, Brandon Philips , xfs@oss.sgi.com Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Brandon, > > the version of the run script in the attr and acl packages is somewhat dated; > I have made a few improvements since. I'll move this out of {acl,attr}/test > and put the latest version into the libmisc/ directory. > > Note that I recently rewrote the run script from scratch. Unlike the old > version, the new one runs the whole script inside the same shell. There are > still a few problems to be solved; most importantly, user switching doesn't > work, yet. I hope you get that feature done soon, and look forward to reviewing it. Let me just be Captain Obvious and say that user switching is a critical feature for code used to drive ACL tests ;-) > Eventually I want to replace the old version, though. > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/shrun > > > > >> Add a | test line that is similar to > but is interpreted as a regular >> expression. >> > > I have been using ">~" instead of "|" for that. I'm still not sure that > including regular expression matching was a good idea though, so shrun > doesn't have any of that yet. We'll se how things develop. > > > Regexp matching is the kind of thing that sounds like it could be quite useful, but it's a pain to implement. When I wrote a Python interpreter for the shrun language for use in Newpynfs, I didn't bother implementing the regexp feature. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. the brightly coloured sporks of revolution. I don't speak for SGI. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs