GNU bug report logs - #8887
Automake patches for custom test drivers' support break coreutils testsuite (was: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] parallel-tests: add auxiliary script 'pt-driver', refactor)

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Message #19 received at 8887-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8887-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tests: make test runner a script, not a shell function
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:49:42 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tests: avoid extra forks in the testsuite
>>
>> * tests/shell-or-perl: Prefer the `read' builtin over `grep' to
>> look at the shebang line of test scripts.  Since `read' is a
>> special builtin, it might abort the whole program upon failures,
>> so add extra sanity checks, verifying that the test script exists
>> and is readable, before trying to read from it.
...
>
> Thank you.  I pushed that as-is.

And am marking this as "done".

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