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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] Question regarding background jobs in LTP
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 14:36:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190304133609.GB27682@rei.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0AAF7904-0F33-4D6C-949E-4733722BE46B@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hi!
> We've tried  "#/bin/sh -x" didn't changed the output
> it hangs on the same command:
> 
> mon_fsstatd 1 TPASS: 'mon_procd --version' returned '0'
> mon_fsstatd 1 TPASS: 'mon_procd -i 30' returned '0'
> mon_fsstatd 1 TBROK: test killed, timeout!
> the command which lead to the hang - is the same:
> 
> mon_fsstatd_run 0 "mon_procd -a &???

Now I see the problem, you cannot pass a string to a function, execute
the variable holding the string, and expect bash to parse special
characters in the string, as it is the & is passed as a parameter to the
mon_procd instead because the string is not broken down.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-04 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-28 14:42 [LTP] Question regarding background jobs in LTP Elif Aslan
2019-03-01 11:49 ` Cyril Hrubis
2019-03-04  9:33   ` Elif Aslan
2019-03-04 13:36     ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]

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