On July 30, 2019 1:32 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Randall S. Becker" <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> writes:
>
> > t0066: dir-iterator
> >
> > Subtest 4 depends on a non-portable error code. ENOENT is not
> guaranteed ...
> > Subtest 5 also depends on a non-portable error code. ENOTDIR is not
gua...
>
> Yikes, and sorry. I've become somewhat complacent after relying on how
> good our other reviewers are, pretty much ignored the new code in fringes
> like t/helper/, and failed catch an obvious amateurish mistake like this
one.
>
> I do not think of a portable way to map an int ENOENT to a string
"ENOENT",
> but there are only only two errors test-dir-iterator test code cares
about, so
> perhaps a patch like the following may be sufficient.
>
> I wonder if a tool like sparse can help us catch a pattern that feeds
errno to
> "%d" format.
>
> t/helper/test-dir-iterator.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> t/t0066-dir-iterator.sh | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/helper/test-dir-iterator.c b/t/helper/test-dir-iterator.c
index
> a5b96cb0dc..c7c30664da 100644
> --- a/t/helper/test-dir-iterator.c
> +++ b/t/helper/test-dir-iterator.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,15 @@
> #include "iterator.h"
> #include "dir-iterator.h"
>
> +static const char *error_name(int error_number) {
> + switch (error_number) {
> + case ENOENT: return "ENOENT";
> + case ENOTDIR: return "ENOTDIR";
> + default: return "ESOMETHINGELSE";
> + }
> +}
> +
> /*
> * usage:
> * tool-test dir-iterator [--follow-symlinks] [--pedantic] directory_path
@@ -
> 31,7 +40,7 @@ int cmd__dir_iterator(int argc, const char **argv)
> diter = dir_iterator_begin(path.buf, flags);
>
> if (!diter) {
> - printf("dir_iterator_begin failure: %d\n", errno);
> + printf("dir_iterator_begin failure: %s\n",
error_name(errno));
> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> }
>
> diff --git a/t/t0066-dir-iterator.sh b/t/t0066-dir-iterator.sh index
> 9354d3f1ed..92910e4e6c 100755
> --- a/t/t0066-dir-iterator.sh
> +++ b/t/t0066-dir-iterator.sh
> @@ -55,13 +55,13 @@ test_expect_success 'dir-iterator should list files in
> the correct order' '
> test_expect_success 'begin should fail upon inexistent paths' '
> test_must_fail test-tool dir-iterator ./inexistent-path \
> >actual-inexistent-path-output &&
> - echo "dir_iterator_begin failure: 2" >expected-inexistent-path-
> output &&
> + echo "dir_iterator_begin failure: ENOENT"
> +>expected-inexistent-path-output &&
> test_cmp expected-inexistent-path-output actual-inexistent-path-
> output '
>
> test_expect_success 'begin should fail upon non directory paths' '
> test_must_fail test-tool dir-iterator ./dir/b >actual-non-dir-output
> &&
> - echo "dir_iterator_begin failure: 20" >expected-non-dir-output &&
> + echo "dir_iterator_begin failure: ENOTDIR" >expected-non-dir-
> output &&
> test_cmp expected-non-dir-output actual-non-dir-output '
>
Seems reasonable. Better than trying to use strerror(), which previously
(I'm not sure whether it was this project or another) had a similar mapping
issue because the error text does not match either.
