Re: [PATCH 4/4] test: set up the outcount file for T380.1

[Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Feb 10 2022, Michael J. Gruber wrote:

> Tomi Ollila venit, vidit, dixit 2022-02-09 21:50:35:
>> On Wed, Feb 09 2022, Michael J. Gruber wrote:
>> 
>> > If gdb is present but for some reason `atomicity.py` fails to write to
>> > the output file then the test fails with some ugly bash errors in the
>> > wrong places (because the outcount variable is empty).
>> >
>> > Therefore, set up the outcount file with `0` to get the test script to
>> > rund and the test to fail fpr a clearer reason.
>> >
>> > Background: We noticed this with arch armhfp emulated on x86_64 in
>> > Fedora's COPR test build environment.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
>> > ---
>> >  test/T380-atomicity.sh | 1 +
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/test/T380-atomicity.sh b/test/T380-atomicity.sh
>> > index 49df5c38..caac28a3 100755
>> > --- a/test/T380-atomicity.sh
>> > +++ b/test/T380-atomicity.sh
>> > @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ if test_require_external_prereq gdb; then
>> >      # -tty /dev/null works around a conflict between the 'timeout' wrapper
>> >      # and gdb's attempt to control the TTY.
>> >      export MAIL_DIR
>> > +    echo -n 0 > outcount
>> 
>> printf 0 > outcount (is my suggestion)
>
> Would by mine, too :)
> Again, this is not the style of T380 which uses echo exclusively so far.

Right, I did not see the surrouding code in this series :D

(the only thing I saw use of $(expr ...) -- which I put to my notes of
trivial fixes one could do in (distant?) future)

Perhaps the series is good then (and perhaps incremental changing of
expected - actual order is better than newer changing any of those)

Tomi