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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft 1/5] tests: add feature probing
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 22:28:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPePdR4SvdAk7+11@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230905140920.GC28401@breakpoint.cc>

On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 04:09:20PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> > Sure, because that's a short-cut for '[ -n false ]'. In what context is
> > that problematic?
> 
> if [ $HAVE_NFT_foo ] ; then ...

Same as if $HAVE_NFT_foo was either 0 or 1?! Obviously, with variables
holding the string "true" or "false", one has to test them either via:

| if $var; then ...

or

| if [ $var == true ]; then ...

I just find code more straightforward which does "if $have_foo; then
..." instead of "if [ $have_foo -ne 1 ]; then ...". The latter makes me
question whether that 1 is positive (as with C) or negative (as with
shell) and whether there are more possible values than two and any but 1
are OK.

Cheers, Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-05 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-04  9:06 [PATCH nft 0/5] tests: shell: add and use feature probing Florian Westphal
2023-09-04  9:06 ` [PATCH nft 1/5] tests: add " Florian Westphal
2023-09-05 13:00   ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-05 13:44     ` Florian Westphal
2023-09-05 14:01       ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-05 14:09         ` Florian Westphal
2023-09-05 20:28           ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2023-09-06  5:17     ` Thomas Haller
2023-09-06 14:36   ` Thomas Haller
2023-09-04  9:06 ` [PATCH nft 2/5] tests: shell: let netdev_chain_0 test indicate SKIP if kernel requires netdev device Florian Westphal
2023-09-05 13:03   ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-06 13:42   ` Thomas Haller
2023-09-04  9:06 ` [PATCH nft 3/5] tests: shell: typeof_integer/raw: prefer @nh for payload matching Florian Westphal
2023-09-04  9:06 ` [PATCH nft 4/5] tests: shell: add and use feature probe for map query like a set Florian Westphal
2023-09-06 14:39   ` Thomas Haller
2023-09-04  9:06 ` [PATCH nft 5/5] tests: shell skip inner matching tests if unsupported Florian Westphal

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