Re: autotest annoyances

[Eric Blake]

Hi Ralf,
> 
> I read your patch the way that this "more than 2 exit statuses" proposal
> isn't immediately necessary any more, right?

Indeed, and so I won't propose anything on this front until after 2.60.

> 
> Yes, or similarly.  I traced back why Akim did it back then the way it
> was documented until now: the `run' script was a numbered script at that
> time, and lived outside the test directory.  So not recreating that made
> sense then.  But it doesn't now.

Thanks for the detective work.

> > I'll start looking into this, but for now I will leave it as an xfail and
> > focus instead on the issues raised by the first bug.
> 
> No need.  It was easier than I thought (because all the ingredients are
> already in place).  See below.

Nice (I would like to think that I would also have found that, if I had just
spent time looking for it, but am glad you didn't mind the work).

-- 
Eric Blake