On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 07:11:08PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> It's a frequent annoyance of mine in the test suite that I'm
> e.g. running t*.sh with some parallel "prove" in one screen, and then I
> run tABCD*.sh manually, and get unlucky because they use the same trash
> dir, and both tests go boom.
>
> You can fix that with --root, which is much of what this patch does. My
> one-liner for doing --stress has been something like:
>
> perl -E 'say ++$_ while 1' | parallel --jobs=100% --halt-on-error soon,fail=1 './t0000-basic.sh --root=trash-{} -v'
>
> But it would be great if I didn't have to worry about that and could
> just run two concurrent:
>
> ./t0000-basic.sh
>
> So I think we could just set some env variable where instead of having
> the predictable trash directory we have a $TRASHDIR.$N as this patch
> does, except we pick $N by locking some test-runs/tABCD.Nth file with
> flock() during the run.
That actually sounds kind of annoying when doing a single run, since now
you have this extra ".N". I guess it would at least be predictable, and
I tend to tab-complete the trash dirs anyway.
I accomplish the same thing by doing my "big" runs using --root
specified in config.mak (which points to a RAM disk -- if you're not
using one to run the tests, you really should look into it, as it's way
faster). And then for one-offs, investigating failures, etc, I do "cd t
&& ./t0000-basic.sh -v -i", which naturally runs in the local directory.
-Peff
