Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v5 09/10] qemu-iotests: add option to save temp files on error

[Eric Blake]

On 10/17/2017 11:31 AM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> Now that ./check takes care of cleaning up after each tests, it
> can also selectively not clean up.  Add option to leave all output from
> tests intact if that test encountered an error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/check | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/check b/tests/qemu-iotests/check
> index 057ea39..a66f7b0 100755
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/check
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/check
> @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ sortme=false
>  expunge=true
>  have_test_arg=false
>  cachemode=false
> +save_on_err=false
>  
>  tmp="${TEST_DIR}"/$$
>  rm -f $tmp.list $tmp.tmp $tmp.sed
> @@ -263,6 +264,8 @@ other options
>      -o options          -o options to pass to qemu-img create/convert
>      -T                  output timestamps
>      -c mode             cache mode
> +    -s                  save test scratch directory on test failure

Is there an easy way to force all tests to fail (and thus preserve the
scratch directory for inspection, even though the test normally would
succeed)?  It might serve as a useful double-check that you got
everything in this series, maybe even worth documenting in the commit
messages.

> +
> +        if [ "$save_on_err" != "true" ] || [ "$err" != "true" ]
> +        then
> +            rm -rf "$TEST_DIR_SEQ"
> +        fi

I suppose the easiest way is to hack this 'if'.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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