On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 08:04:13PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > So to prevent nested prereqs from interfering with each other let's > evaluate each prereq in its own dedicated directory by appending the > prereq's name to the directory name, e.g. 'prereq-test-dir-SYMLINKS'. > In the test we check not only that the prereq test dir is still there, > but also that the inner prereq can't mess with the outer prereq's > files. That sounds reasonable. I do wonder, though, whether simply creating the prereq directory in the _current_ directory would be sufficient. Then you'd get prereq-test-dir/prereq-test-dir for a nested invocation. But the prereqs aren't supposed to care about which specific directory they're in. I.e., your test passes equally well with just: diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh index 59bbf75e83..f5dc6801d9 100644 --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh @@ -474,15 +474,15 @@ test_lazy_prereq () { test_run_lazy_prereq_ () { script=' -mkdir -p "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" && +mkdir -p "prereq-test-dir" && ( - cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" &&'"$2"' + cd "prereq-test-dir" &&'"$2"' )' say >&3 "checking prerequisite: $1" say >&3 "$script" test_eval_ "$script" eval_ret=$? - rm -rf "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" + rm -rf "prereq-test-dir" if test "$eval_ret" = 0; then say >&3 "prerequisite $1 ok" else though I guess it is not really much simpler (it avoids the funky quoting around $1 in the embedded script, but we already have that for $2). And perhaps debugging is easier with a more predictable and descriptive directory name. > +test_lazy_prereq NESTED_INNER ' > + >inner && > + rm -f outer > +' > +test_lazy_prereq NESTED_PREREQ ' > + >outer && > + test_have_prereq NESTED_INNER && > + echo "can create new file in cwd" >file && > + test -f outer && > + test ! -f inner > +' > +test_expect_success NESTED_PREREQ 'evaluating nested lazy prereqs dont interfere with each other' ' > + nestedworks=yes > +' > + > +if test -z "$GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS_INTERNAL" && test "$nestedworks" != yes > +then > + say 'bug in test framework: nested lazy prerequisites do not work' > + exit 1 > +fi I was surprised to see this bare exit, because I know we have some functions (run_sub_test_*) to help with testing the framework itself. It looks like the other prereq tests don't use it either, though. I wonder if there is a technical reason, or if they were simply added at a different time. (Either way, I am OK for your new test to match the surrounding ones like you have here). -Peff