Test case 108 can fail beacuse of the incorrect amount of spaces in its output. This can be overrided by passing -b option to diff (quotation of man page): -b --ignore-space-change Ignore changes in the amount of white space. Since there is currently no mechanism to pass any option to diff I suggest following mechanism: Every test can have its config file ($sef.config) where all its test-run configuration can be stored. Also it should contain variable CONFIG_OPTIONS that specifies what options are created/modified. The check script'll only source the config file if it exists and unset all the modified variables that are listed in CONFIG_OPTIONS variable once they're not needed. This configuration mechanism could (with additional patch to the file check) also help handle multiple output files that might be beneficial in few test cases. Patch that fixes test case 108 and adds described mechanism of test configuration: diff -urpN a/xfstests/108.config b/xfstests/108.config --- a/xfstests/108.config 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ b/xfstests/108.config 2010-12-09 11:24:51.626367533 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +export CONFIG_OPTIONS="DIFF_OPTIONS CONFIG_OPTIONS" +export DIFF_OPTIONS="-b" diff -urpN a/xfstests/check b/xfstests/check --- a/xfstests/check 2010-12-09 11:34:26.709247611 +0100 +++ b/xfstests/check 2010-12-09 11:37:13.857370558 +0100 @@ -226,6 +226,11 @@ do else # really going to try and run this one # + CONFIG_OPTIONS="CONFIG_OPTIONS" + if [ -f $seq.config ] + then + source $seq.config + fi rm -f $seq.out.bad lasttime=`sed -n -e "/^$seq /s/.* //p" <check.time` if [ "X$lasttime" != X ]; then @@ -273,7 +278,7 @@ do echo " - no qualified output" err=true else - if diff $seq.out $tmp.out >/dev/null 2>&1 + if diff $DIFF_OPTIONS $seq.out $tmp.out >/dev/null 2>&1 then if $err then @@ -286,12 +291,12 @@ do else echo " - output mismatch (see $seq.out.bad)" mv $tmp.out $seq.out.bad - $diff $seq.out $seq.out.bad + $diff $DIFF_OPTIONS $seq.out $seq.out.bad err=true fi fi fi - + unset $CONFIG_OPTIONS fi # come here for each test, except when $showme is true Signed-off-by: Boris Ranto <branto@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs