From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> The new poke_file function sets bytes at an offset in a file given a printf-style format string. It can be used to corrupt an image file for test coverage of error paths.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> --- tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc index e9ba358..5e077c3 100644 --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc @@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ dd() fi } +# poke_file 'test.img' 512 '\xff\xfe' +poke_file() +{ + printf "$3" | dd "of=$1" bs=1 "seek=$2" conv=notrunc &>/dev/null +} + # we need common.config if [ "$iam" != "check" ] then -- 1.8.3.4