[LTP] [PATCH] splice02: Generate input in C

Cyril Hrubis
2021-03-09T08:15:03Z

Hi!
> > That would not work, the pipe is supposed to be in the runtest file.
> Do you want to test that runtest is working with pipe?

Yes, that was the original idea behind adding the splice test there.

> I considered anything but shell script with getopt parameters a bit strange and
> thought it'd be removed in new shell runner. But obviously you want to keep it.

We will have to keep the functionality for the time being.

> But in case of failure script don't detect it. e.g.:
>
> echo "SUCCESS" | cat /asdf
> cat: /asdf: No such file or directory
>
> => there is no TFAIL/TBROK/TCONF. Not sure if all users check exit status (which
> they should now, because that is the only common thing so far).

Well yes, I guess that we can do something as:

echo "SUCCESS" | grep -q "SUCCESS"

Which at least returns 1 if the grep fails.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz