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bug#62406: “! failing-command” pattern in shell tests is wrong
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#62406: “! failing-command” pattern in shell tests is wrong |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:21:12 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Eric,
Eric Bavier <bavier@posteo.net> skribis:
> The purpose of d89343 was to ease visual parsing of the tests. I mentioned
> having used the '!' syntax in my own shell tests, but I realize now that I
> was not relying on `set -e` like guix is.
>
> I'll consider a few options.
Neat. I guess we could have a ‘lib.sh’ with an ‘expect_fail’ function
or something.
> Do we have a known issue where this is causing a test to not to catch
> a failure?
No; I noticed it while writing a new test that I expected to fail.
Thanks for your feedback! Shell semantics are definitely weird. :-)
Ludo’.