procps/testsuite
Craig Small aa41c309dd kill: -l space between name parses correctly
This was supposed to be just a cherry-pick of the referenced
commit. However there were two problems:
 1. kill code was moved out to its own file
 2. strtosig() had a latent bug where signal numbers were not
 converted to names.

Original note:
kill -lHUP would work correctly, but kill -l HUP would not.

The list option in kill was hit by a quirk of getopt_long where an
option with an optional argument would not attempt to get the argument
beyond the space, even though a mandatory argument would do that.

The fix is a kludge to scan to the next argument and if it looks
like something we can use, use it. Lucky for us, the list option is
one where parsing can stop immediately.

Thanks to Brian Vandenberg for the way forward.

References:
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1052746/getopt-does-not-parse-optional-arguments-to-parameters
 https://bugs.debian.org/854407
 commit 537cea324b121f54744369425332c256aa84a181
2017-05-22 22:15:59 +10:00
..
config Do not link test process to libprocps 2015-06-14 08:54:59 +10:00
free.test free: Use IEC units 2015-04-03 19:18:58 +11:00
kill.test kill: -l space between name parses correctly 2017-05-22 22:15:59 +10:00
lib.test lib: add fileutils file with stream error checking facility 2012-03-23 15:57:41 +01:00
pgrep.test pgrep: warning about 15+ chars name only if zero matches found 2017-01-26 16:52:23 +11:00
pkill.test testsuite: check for trailing garbage in pkill 2015-10-14 21:31:56 +11:00
pmap.test Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
ps.test testsuite: fix ps signals test 2015-06-14 15:20:48 +10:00
pwdx.test Create test process 2015-06-13 15:04:31 +10:00
slabtop.test Updated testsuite files for new NLS output 2012-01-02 17:39:41 +11:00
sysctl.test Updated testsuite files for new NLS output 2012-01-02 17:39:41 +11:00
uptime.test test for previous commit 2012-12-26 23:21:44 +11:00
vmstat.test Skip tests where /proc/vmstat unreadable 2015-06-13 15:13:39 +10:00
w.test Fix w tests when no user is logged in 2012-05-08 22:51:19 +10:00
.gitignore tests: add SCHED_BATCH test 2012-01-09 21:37:41 +01:00
Makefile.am procps-ng testsuite : simplify DEJAGNU workaround 2013-05-26 07:32:02 +10:00
README docs: add testsuite readme file 2012-03-03 18:36:29 +11:00

How to use check suite
----------------------

You need DejaGNU package.  Assuming you have it all you need to do is

make check


Something failed now what
-------------------------

First determine what did not work.  If only one check failed you can
run it individually in debugging mode.  For example

runtest -a -de -v w.test/w.exp
Expect binary is /usr/bin/expect
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/runtest.exp as main test driver
[...]

Do not bother capturing screen output, it is in testrun.log which
test suite generated.

$ ls  testrun.* dbg.log
dbg.log  testrun.log  testrun.sum

The reason why test failed should be in dbg.log.  Assuming you
figured out the reason you could write a patch fixing w.test/w.exp
and send it to upstream.

If you do not know how, or have time, to fix the issue create tar.gz
file containing test run logs and submit it to upstream maintainers.
Notice that in later case upstream sometimes has to ask clarifying
questions about environment where problem occurred.