On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:23 PM, kgs wrote:
> kgs wrote:
>> kgs wrote:
>>
>>> kgs wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I've compiled sqlite3 for arm-linux(armv5t) as well as the tcl
>>>> environment.
>>>> sqlite3 3.5.9
>>>> tcl 8.4
>>>>
>>>> I've run testfixture all.test on the hardware it's compiled for.
>>>> Everything runs great until we come to the crash4-1.1.1 up to
>>>> crash4-1.1000.1.
>>>> the messages are :
>>>> Expected: [1 {child process exited abnormally}]
>>>> Got: [1 {couldn't create error file for command: no such
>>>> file or
>>>> directory}]
>>>>
>>>> for each crash4-1.x.1, then :
>>>> *** Giving up...
>>>> 1000 errors out of 26715 tests
>>>>
>>>> the crash4-1.x.2 and crash4-1.x.3 return Ok.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas as to what may be wrong ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
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>>> So this is apparently what is happening...
>>> this code in tester.tcl :
>>> set r [catch {
>>> exec [info nameofexec] crash.tcl >@stdout
>>> } msg]
>>>
>>> is returning :
>>> 1 {couldn't create error file for command: no such file or
>>> directory}
>>>
>>> so i think that >@stdout is trying to treat stdout as an open
>>> file...
>>> but it doesn't exist.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that stdout is supposed to be a fixed thing in
>>> tcl... and
>>> that this is supposed to take the output from the exec and pipe
>>> it to
>>> stdout.
>>>
>>> So... if this is how its supposed to work, then why isn't it ?
>>>
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>> Never mind that last message, >@stdout puts the error message i'm
>> getting in "msg" through the catch.
>> So that leaves, that the testfixture command is not being found. I
>> checked what "info nameofexec" is returning, and it returns the full
>> path and name of testfixture.
>> When I run "testfixture crash.tcl", I get no error... I am confused.
>>
>> Forgive my babbling, this is my first day with tcl.
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> Ok, so now I think I know what really going on... from
> http://www.tcl.tk/faq/tclwin.htm
> B-14: exec: couldn't create error file for command: Error 0
> If exec returns an error message of "couldn't create error file for
> command: Error 0", the following may help:
> This problem exists under Unix and Windows NT. I have conclusive
> proof
> that under Unix it was being caused by the temporary directory not
> being
> world writable, which explains why superusers were able to "exec"
> something but not a regular user. The "gotcha!" is that /tmp is not
> necessarily the temporary directory that is used, so people were not
> seeing an obvious problem. Tcl uses the tmpnam() system call, which on
> many systems actually uses /var/tmp, and on some systems that
> directory
> was not world writable. I would like to call this a problem with one's
> site administration.
>
> Since root access to the hardware I'm using is not attainable, how
> do I
> work around this ? Any ideas ?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe you could get around the problem by setting the TMPDIR environment
variable to the path of a writable directory (see [man tmpnam]). Failing
that, maybe somebody on comp.lang.tcl will know.
Dan.
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