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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	"Brad Smith" <brad@comstyle.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Max Reitz" <mreitz@redhat.com>,
	"Kamil Rytarowski" <kamil@netbsd.org>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Igor Mammedov" <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	"Fam Zheng" <fam@euphon.net>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/18] configure: Disable W^X on OpenBSD
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 21:04:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e67828c-3f62-da8f-f615-259f721a4bba@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0462853c-2f19-58ff-aee5-d667a86322e1@redhat.com>

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On 1/30/19 1:17 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:

>> test ... -a ...
>>
>> is not portable (POSIX permits non-XSI systems to omit support for these
>> operators, but even where they are supported, there are some inherently
>> ambiguous inputs where you CANNOT predict whether the shell will parse
>> -a as a binary operator or as an argument to some other operator).
>> Instead, you should ALWAYS break dual tests into:
>>
>> test ... && test ...
>>
>> instead.  (Same for '-o' vs '|| test')
> 
> $ grep 'test.* -a ' configure | wc -l
> 21
> $ grep 'test.* && ' configure | wc -l
> 16
> 
> Looks like we do not really care?

Well, I care. Enough to propose a patch :)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-02/msg00960.html

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-05  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-29 17:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/18] OpenBSD: Enable qtesting Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/18] tests/vm: Be verbose while extracting compressed images Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-05 13:17   ` Peter Maydell
2019-02-07 22:08   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-08 17:36     ` Alex Bennée
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/18] configure: Disable W^X on OpenBSD Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 18:02   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 21:54   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-30  7:17     ` Thomas Huth
2019-02-05  3:04       ` Eric Blake [this message]
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/18] tests/vm/openbsd: Disable the W^X protection on the build partition Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 21:58   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/18] ahci-test: Add dependency to qemu-img tool Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/18] qemu-iotests: Add dependency to qemu-nbd tool Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 22:03   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/18] qemu-iotests: Improve portability by searching bash in the $PATH Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 22:15   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-30 10:11     ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/18] tests/multiboot: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 18:10   ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-29 22:16   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/18] tests/bios-tables: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 18:12   ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-30  8:30   ` Igor Mammedov
2019-02-20 20:01   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/18] tests/vm/openbsd: Install Bash from the ports Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-05 13:20   ` Peter Maydell
2019-02-05 13:42     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-05 13:57       ` Brad Smith
2019-02-05 14:23         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-05 22:24           ` Brad Smith
2019-02-06  9:17             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-02-06  7:29           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-06 12:11             ` Peter Maydell
2019-02-06 18:15         ` Brad Smith
2019-02-06 20:25           ` Alex Bennée
2019-02-07  1:03             ` Brad Smith
2019-02-07  7:59               ` Alex Bennée
2019-02-05 16:09   ` Alex Bennée
2019-02-05 16:17     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 10/18] qemu-iotests: Ensure GNU sed is used Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 22:21   ` Eric Blake
2019-02-04 23:55     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/18] tests/vm/openbsd: Install GNU sed from the ports Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 12/18] test-iov: Disable iov/io test on OpenBSD Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 13/18] oslib-posix: Ignore fcntl("/dev/null", F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK) failure Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-05 13:22   ` Peter Maydell
2019-02-05 13:43     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-05 17:40   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-29 17:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 14/18] tests/vm: Run tests on OpenBSD Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-05 13:23   ` Peter Maydell
2019-01-29 17:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 15/18] iotests: Let verify_platform() check for unsupported platforms Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 17:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 16/18] iotests: Disable 208 on OpenBSD Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 17:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 17/18] iotests: Disable 209 " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-01-29 17:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 18/18] iotests: Disable 236 and 238 " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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