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Re: [PATCH] tests: don't let a fail=1 env. setting induce unwarranted te


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: don't let a fail=1 env. setting induce unwarranted test failure
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:36 +0100

Eric Blake wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>> This corrects all of them and adds a syntax-check rule
>> to ensure that no new instance is introduced.
>
> Why not factor the initialization of fail=0 into tests/test-lib.sh?

Yes, that is probably better.
Define the problem away, rather than add code to prevent it.

>> Fix the offenders:
>> * tests/cp/acl: Set file=0
>
> Typo.  s/file=0/fail=0./

Thanks!




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