[ltt-dev] [UST PATCH] Fix bug in test_functions.sh

David Goulet david.goulet at polymtl.ca
Wed Sep 22 10:09:24 EDT 2010


Yes you are right... Same problem here even with the shift optind-1...

Well, we are sure that on Debian AND Ubuntu, it's a problem so I guess 
this patch is *very* useful ;)

Cheers
David

On 10-09-22 02:58 AM, Nils Carlson wrote:
> Getting weirder and weirder...
>
> This test fails on two of my machines:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> function optind_test() {
>
> while getopts "a:b:c:" flag; do
> case $flag in
> a) echo $OPTARG;;
> b) echo $OPTARG;;
> c) echo $OPTARG;;
> esac
> done
> }
>
> optind_test -a hi -b thats nice
> optind_test -c whats
> echo ------
>
>
> Adding a "local OPTIND=" after the function line makes everything work,
> but it shouldn't fail. According to POSIX OPTIND should be function
> local already.
>
> /Nils
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Nils Carlson wrote:
>
>> On Sep 21, 2010, at 3:02 PM, David Goulet wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Nils,
>>>
>>> I don't understand here why you need to specify OPTIND as local.
>>> Isn't a global variable set by getops only used in the while loop..
>>
>> Thought so too... but it didn't behave that way on my machine.
>>
>> It's possible this is an issue with debian testing though. I'll try to
>> check on ubuntu at home.
>>
>> /Nils
>>
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 10-09-21 07:54 AM, Nils Carlson wrote:
>>>> As we were playing with OPTIND we managed to match the same
>>>> thing multiple times. Maybe make this more elegant in the
>>>> future.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Nils Carlson<nils.carlson at ericsson.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> tests/test_functions.sh | 1 +
>>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/tests/test_functions.sh b/tests/test_functions.sh
>>>> index d27a734..40d4d89 100644
>>>> --- a/tests/test_functions.sh
>>>> +++ b/tests/test_functions.sh
>>>> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ function check_trace_logs() {
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> function trace_matches() {
>>>> + local OPTIND=
>>>>
>>>> RUNLTTV=~/devel/lttv/runlttv
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Goulet
>>> LTTng project, DORSAL Lab.
>>>
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