On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 08:54:35AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:55:15PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 06:45:27PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Not sure why this hasn't been broken all along, but we should be
> > > exporting this variable so that it shows up in subshells....
> >
> > May I ask where's the subshell which uses $POPULATE_METADUMP?
>
> _scratch_xfs_fuzz_metadata does this:
>
> echo "${fields}" | while read field; do
> echo "${verbs}" | while read fuzzverb; do
> __scratch_xfs_fuzz_mdrestore
> _xfs_mdrestore "${POPULATE_METADUMP}"
>
> The (nested) echo piped to while starts subshells.
I'm not so familar with this part, so I didn't a simple test[1], and looks like
the PARAM can be seen, even it's not exported. Do I misunderstand something?
Thanks,
Zorro
[1]
$ echo "$list"
a
b
cc
$ PARAM="This's a test"
$ echo "$list"|while read c1;do echo "$list"|while read c2;do echo $PARAM;done; done
This's a test
This's a test
This's a test
This's a test
This's a test
This's a test
This's a test
This's a test
This's a test
>
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > common/populate | 6 +++---
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > >
> > > diff --git a/common/populate b/common/populate
> > > index cfdaf766f0..b501c2fe45 100644
> > > --- a/common/populate
> > > +++ b/common/populate
> > > @@ -868,9 +868,9 @@ _scratch_populate_cached() {
> > > local meta_tag="$(echo "${meta_descr}" | md5sum - | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
> > > local metadump_stem="${TEST_DIR}/__populate.${FSTYP}.${meta_tag}"
> > >
> > > - # These variables are shared outside this function
> > > - POPULATE_METADUMP="${metadump_stem}.metadump"
> > > - POPULATE_METADUMP_DESCR="${metadump_stem}.txt"
> > > + # This variable is shared outside this function
> > > + export POPULATE_METADUMP="${metadump_stem}.metadump"
> > > + local POPULATE_METADUMP_DESCR="${metadump_stem}.txt"
> >
> > If the POPULATE_METADUMP_DESCR is not shared outside anymore, how about change
> > it to lower-case?
>
> Ok.
>
> --D
>
> > >
> > > # Don't keep metadata images cached for more 48 hours...
> > > rm -rf "$(find "${POPULATE_METADUMP}" -mtime +2 2>/dev/null)"
> > >
> >
>
