It sounds good to mark the global netns variable as 'readonly', but Bash doesn't allow the creation of local variables with the same name. Because it looks like 'readonly' is mainly used here to check if a netns with that name has already been set, it sounds fine to check if a variable with this name has already been set instead. By doing that, we avoid having to modify helpers from MPTCP selftests using the same variable name as the one used to store the created netns name. While at it, also avoid an unnecessary call to 'eval' to set a local variable. Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/net/lib.sh | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/lib.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/lib.sh index c7a8cfb477cc..114b927fee25 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/lib.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/lib.sh @@ -172,11 +172,11 @@ setup_ns() local ns_list=() for ns_name in "$@"; do # Some test may setup/remove same netns multi times - if unset ${ns_name} 2> /dev/null; then + if [ -z "${!ns_name}" ]; then ns="${ns_name,,}-$(mktemp -u XXXXXX)" - eval readonly ${ns_name}="$ns" + eval "${ns_name}=${ns}" else - eval ns='$'${ns_name} + ns="${!ns_name}" cleanup_ns "$ns" fi -- 2.43.0