From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit code
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:57:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160726085754.GB27082@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22422.18129.501438.934884@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
on Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 06:05:21PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit code"):
> > On 25/07/16 12:25, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > In particular, Error might mask a failure.
> >
> > Indeed it could. Either should cause a prompt investigation and effort
> > to resolve the issues, but one must be more severe than the other and
> > this is the way things are specified.
>
> Is this really how XenRT expects things to be explained to it ?
>
> This seems to be a very unusual approach. Normally, in any program,
> the unbounded class of errors will be always reported in the exit
> status.
>
> If we are running xtf inside osstest, I trust we aren't relying on
> this aggregated exit status ?
>
No, we don't rely on aggregated exit status.
Wei.
> Ian.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-26 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 15:44 [PATCH XTF 0/3] Runner exit code clean up Wei Liu
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 1/3] xtf-runner: sync all test states Wei Liu
2016-07-21 18:49 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 2/3] xtf-runner: provide a set of exit codes for different states Wei Liu
2016-07-21 16:27 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-21 16:29 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-21 16:37 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-21 18:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit code Wei Liu
2016-07-21 19:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-22 9:29 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-22 9:35 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-25 11:25 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-25 12:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-25 17:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-26 8:57 ` Wei Liu [this message]
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