On 2017-11-09 21:58, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/09/2017 02:30 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
>> 083 has (at least) two issues:
>>
>> 1. By launching the nbd-fault-injector in background, it may not be
>>    scheduled until the first grep on its output file is executed.
>>    However, until then, that file may not have been created yet -- so it
>>    either does not exist yet (thus making the grep emit an error), or it
>>    does exist but contains stale data (thus making the rest of the test
>>    case work connect to a wrong address).
>>    Fix this by explicitly overwriting the output file before executing
>>    nbd-fault-injector.
>>
>> 2. The nbd-fault-injector prints things other than "Listening on...".
>>    It also prints a "Closing connection" message from time to time.  We
>>    currently invoke sed on the whole file in the hope of it only
>>    containing the "Listening on..." line yet.  That hope is sometimes
>>    shattered by the brutal reality of race conditions, so invoke grep
>>    before sed.
> 
> Comment is now stale; s/invoke grep before sed/make the sed script more
> robust/

*sigh*

It appears my hope of easily fixing patches is often shattered by the
brutal reality, too.

> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

Thanks!  I'll fix the sentence when applying the series.

Max

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