Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 03/13] scripts: Add archive-source.sh

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 09/20 08:20, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/19/2017 10:25 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/archive-source.sh | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100755 scripts/archive-source.sh
> > 
> 
> > +
> > +if test -n "$submodules"; then
> > +    {
> > +        git ls-files || error "git ls-files failed"
> > +        for sm in $submodules; do
> > +            (cd $sm; git ls-files) | sed "s:^:$sm/:"
> > +            if test ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -ne 0 -o $? -ne 0; then
> 
> This relies on 'test ... -o ...' which is non-portable.  It "works"
> because there is no possible ambiguity in the contents of $PIPESTATUS
> that could cause a different parse of the test arguments, but I tend to
> discourage any use of -a/-o inside test on principle.  Sadly, writing:
> 
> if test ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -ne 0 || test $? -ne 0
> 
> has a flaw that $? is no longer what you want, at which point you would
> have to introduce a temporary variable.  But we're using bash, so you
> can instead write this as:
> 
> if test "${PIPESTATUS[@]}" != "0 0"; then

Hmm, with exactly this line here I get something like:

./scripts/archive-source.sh: line 36: test: too many arguments

But with

    if test "${PIPESTATUS[0]} ${PIPESTATUS[1]}" != "0 0"; then

it seems to work fine. What is the magic here?

Fam