From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e4qW0-0002ZR-0w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:44:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e4qVz-00061A-8b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:44:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:43:57 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20171018154357.GM9719@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" References: <503559b438cd67b865d32d7d0577afc7ee15f32c.1508257445.git.jcody@redhat.com> <2de32e52-2c2a-5738-4624-d84bf7379c5f@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2de32e52-2c2a-5738-4624-d84bf7379c5f@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 03/10] qemu-iotests: automatically clean up bash protocol servers List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Jeff Cody , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com, jsnow@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 04:46:20PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Maybe we should actually rewrite "check" in Python. That would force us > to think more about the design. I think that would be great. Any shell script that's more than 5 lines long is a shell script that should not exist. It is a terrible language for doing anything remotely complex, and the iotest harness easily falls into category. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|