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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
	"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	"David Turner" <dturner@twosigma.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: abort when can't remove trash directory
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:58:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpaa1pgb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170424014339.nuh7ixlqudfnftzp@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2017 21:43:40 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 05:14:54PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> OK.  I am wondering why we do not do 
>> 
>> 	rm -fr "$TRASH_DIRECTORY"
>> 
>> and do this instead:
>> 
>> 	cd "$(dirname "$remove_trash")" &&
>> 	rm -rf "$(basename "$remove_trash")"
>> 
>> in the original.  It feels somewhat unnatural.
>
> I assumed the "cd" was there because some systems may be unhappy
> removing a directory which is our current working directory. That might
> just be superstition, though.

Ahh, OK, that makes sense.  I forgot about that.

> The use of "basename" in the second does seem superfluous, since the
> trash directory should be the full path (I suspect it wasn't in the
> early days, though).
>
>> So perhaps we can simplify and make it more robust by doing this?
>> [...]
>> +		if test -z "$debug"
>> +		then
>> +			test -d "$TRASH_DIRECTORY" ||
>> +			error "Tests passed but trash directory already removed before test cleanup; aborting"
>> +
>> +			rm -fr "$TRASH_DIRECTORY" ||
>> +			error "Tests passed but test cleanup failed; aborting"
>> +		fi
>
> That looks fine, assuming the answer to the "is the cwd important"
> question is "no".

And I do think the answer would be "yes", unfortunately.  There are
systems that do not even allow a file to be removed while it is
open, so...


  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-24  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-10 12:59 [PATCH] t6500: don't run detached auto gc at the end of the test script SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-10 13:58 ` Jeff King
2017-04-10 16:31   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-10 16:35     ` Jeff King
2017-04-10 16:56       ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-10 17:01         ` Jeff King
2017-04-11 21:32           ` Johannes Sixt
2017-04-12  0:27             ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-12  0:50               ` Jeff King
2017-04-12 22:03                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-12 22:07                   ` [PATCHv2] " SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-13 10:31                     ` [PATCHv2.1] t6500: wait for " SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-13 16:06                       ` David Turner
2017-04-13 16:44                       ` Jeff King
2017-04-13 18:08                         ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-13 18:12                           ` Jeff King
2017-04-13 16:37                   ` [PATCH] t6500: don't run " Jeff King
2017-04-13 17:55                     ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-13 17:57                       ` Jeff King
2017-04-13 19:03                         ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-13 19:12                           ` Jeff King
2017-04-13 19:35                             ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-14 20:08                               ` Jeff King
2017-04-20 16:42                                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-20 16:45                                   ` Jeff King
2017-04-20 16:52                                   ` [PATCH] test-lib: abort when can't remove trash directory SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-20 19:06                                     ` Jeff King
2017-04-21  0:48                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-21 20:06                                       ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-04-21 20:15                                     ` Jeff King
2017-04-24  0:14                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-24  1:43                                         ` Jeff King
2017-04-24  2:58                                           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-04-24  4:02                                             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-24  7:52                                               ` Jeff King
2017-04-24  9:39                                                 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-04-24  9:46                                                   ` Jeff King
2017-04-25  2:31                                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-25  6:05                                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-25  6:07                                                   ` Jeff King
2017-04-25  6:31                                                     ` Junio C Hamano

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