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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] t1406: prepare for the refs code to fail with BUG()
Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 19:41:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpo2euypa.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1805020930340.73@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 2 May 2018 09:41:39 +0200 (DST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> As discussed in this thread, tests that use t/helper/ executables
>> that try to trickle BUG() codepath to ensure that these "should
>> never happen" conditions are caught do need to deal with it.  If
>> dumping core is undesirable, tweaking BUG() implementation so that
>> it becomes die("BUG: ...") *ONLY* when the caller knows what it is
>> doing (e.g. running t/helper/ commands) is probably a good idea.
>> Perhaps GIT_TEST_OPTS can gain one feature "--bug-no-abort" and set
>> an environment variable so that implementation of BUG() can notice,
>> or something.
>
> I think we can do even better than that. t/helper/*.c could set a global
> variable that no other code is supposed to set, to trigger an alternative
> to SIGABRT. Something like

Yes, I agree with that solution for t/helper/ part.

But we also need to arrange a way for things outside t/helper/ to
set the BUG_exit_code at runtime, so that those like Duy who causes
BUG() to trigger in some "git cmd" under development when running
tests for himself, where he does not want his BUG() to dump core and
contaminate global core storage.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-02 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-29 22:17 [PATCH 0/6] Finish the conversion from die("BUG: ...") to BUG() Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-29 22:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] test_must_fail: support ok=sigabrt Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-29 22:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] t1406: prepare for the refs code to fail with BUG() Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-30 19:32   ` Johannes Sixt
2018-05-01 11:04     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-05-01 11:22       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-01 11:26   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-02  3:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-02  7:41       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-05-02 10:41         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-04-29 22:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] refs/*: report bugs using the BUG() macro Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-29 22:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] run-command: use BUG() to report bugs, not die() Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-29 22:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] Replace all die("BUG: ...") calls by BUG() ones Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-29 22:19 ` [PATCH 6/6] Convert remaining die*(BUG) messages Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-30  2:53   ` Eric Sunshine

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