[LTP] [PATCH v3 1/4] tst_test.sh: Use LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL in TST_RETRY_FN()

[Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>]

Hi Clemens,

...
> -_tst_setup_timer()
> +tst_multiply_timeout()
Private function, it should have underscore prefix.
>  {
> -	TST_TIMEOUT=${TST_TIMEOUT:-300}
> -	LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL=${LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL:-1}
> +	# first parameter is used as return value
> +	local timeout="${!1}"
Bashism, this will not work on dash, busybox shell ('busybox sh'), etc.

checkbashisms.pl is your friend :).
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/raw/master/scripts/checkbashisms.pl
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines#132-shell-coding-style

Variable variable is possible to do portable way with eval.
eval timeout=\$$1

> +	[ $# -gt 1 ] && timeout="$2"
> -	if [ "$TST_TIMEOUT" = -1 ]; then
> -		tst_res TINFO "Timeout per run is disabled"
> -		return
> -	fi
> +	LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL=${LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL:-1}

>  	local err="LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL must be number >= 1!"

> @@ -396,13 +395,29 @@ _tst_setup_timer()
>  		LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL=$((LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL+1))
>  		tst_res TINFO "ceiling LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL to $LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL"
>  	fi
> +
>  	[ "$LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL" -ge 1 ] || tst_brk TBROK "$err ($LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL)"
> +	[ "$timeout" -ge 1 ] || tst_brk TBROK "timeout need to be >= 1 ($timeout)"
> +
> +	eval "$1='$(( timeout * LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL))'"
Eval on input, eval on output :).

> +	return 0
You don't use return value anywhere. + There is no return 1.
> +}

Passing timeout variable name and optionally timeout value works and allows
TBROK messages not to be mangled/hidden (which would be if function echo the
result, which is then read the usual way: timeout=$(tst_multiply_timeout 100) ),
but I'm not sure if all this is worth of just error handling.
Having 2x eval, $2 optionally used (but only in tests) makes code a bit complex.

How about just simply save the result into global variable $TST_TIMEOUT?

Kind regards,
Petr