I would like to have some pty(1) tests so we can test for regressions
on all target architectures

On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:54:47 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:31:57 +0200 Cedric Blancher wrote:
> >> Now that the patches for correct job control are being passed around,
> >> what do you *think* - are the grep and xargs builtins ready for
> >> inclusion into libcmd?
> >
> > this is basically the second round of builtin tests
> > my guess is we haven't hit all the the dark corners yet
> > we need a few rounds of no problems before moving them

> Mhhh... we've done some extensive testing with grep.c, xargs.c, tr.c
> and od.c in libcmd (basically using this hackery:
> -- snip --
> function print_patch_extrabuiltins
> {
> # Make sure to use \\ instead of \ for continuations
> cat <<ENDOFPATCH
> --- src/lib/libcmd/Makefile   2012-01-10 19:48:50.000000000 +0100
> +++ src/lib/libcmd/Makefile   2012-06-03 09:28:04.757483905 +0200
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
>       mkfifo.c mktemp.c mv.c paste.c pathchk.c pids.c rev.c rm.c \\
>       rmdir.c stty.c sum.c sync.c tail.c tee.c tty.c uname.c uniq.c \\
>       vmstate.c wc.c revlib.c wclib.c sumlib.o \\
> +     grep.c xargs.c tr.c od.c \\
>       fts_fix.c lib.c \\
>       -lfsg -lmd

> ENDOFPATCH
> }
> [snip]
>               cp 'src/lib/libcmd/Makefile' 'src/lib/libcmd/Makefile.backup'
>               # note this needs GNU patch which is available as
>               # /usr/gnu/bin on Solaris 11
>               print_patch_extrabuiltins | \
>                       ( \
>                               export PATH='/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin'
>                               patch -p0 \
>                       ) || fatal_error 'Patching failed.'
>               cp \
>                       './src/cmd/builtin/tr.c' \
>                       './src/cmd/builtin/od.c' \
>                       './src/cmd/kshlib/cmdtst/grep.c' \
>                       './src/cmd/kshlib/cmdtst/xargs.c' \
>                       'src/lib/libcmd/.'
> [snip]
> -- snip --
> ) and didn't hit any new issues except the reported generic job
> control issues with shell builtins.

> Testing so far included:
> - build OpenSolaris, Illumos and Belenix OS/Net (kernel+basic
> utilities) without trouble with the modified libcmd and the utilities
> replacing those in /usr/bin (either as bulitin or via a wrapper which
> calls |b_*()| directly from |main()| ; for a plain OS/Net build these
> four new utilities are called around 28400 times per build as
> standalones and an uncounted number (erm... the Solaris accounting
> system has no way to measure builtin usage (yet)) of times as
> builtins).
> We tested with and without the new utilities in libcmd and diff'ed the
> results... and no problems were found (erm... I'm lying here. The new
> grep actually found a 17 issues with garbage patterns (like a '*' at
> the beginning of the pattern... which was clearly a typo) which the
> "strict mode" of grep uncovered)
> - Build the OpenSolaris userland+OpenIndiana gates... again with giant
> amounts of usage of these four builtins and the standalone wrapper
> which calls from |main()| into libcmd. Again we diff'ed the complete
> builds and found no trouble
> - I asked Sun^H^H^H?racle PIT (=Preintegration testing) to do some
> testing (this means: The whole might of Solaris tests used for PIT
> testing was thrown at this) and they reported no problems for
> non-interactive usage (2nd test run with the fixes for 64bit SPARC and
> interactive bulitin usage (e.g. job control) is on the way... but I
> doubt they will find anything (related to these four builtins)).

> After all this testing... erm... I don't know what to test anymore.
> We've done all we can do on our side (except writing some tests for
> job control usage) and IMO it's time to move grep.c, xargs.c, tr.c and
> od.c over to libcmd (pty.c should be included too... but mainly to
> help with testing).

> ----

> Bye,
> Roland

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