From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:55:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Modified test-lib.sh to output stats to /tmp/git-test-results
Message-ID: <19f34abd0805120755w5d2361d9y86d4b3ba26b2befa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1210584832-16402-2-git-send-email-srabbelier@gmail.com>

Hi!

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> This change is needed order to aggregate data on the test run later on.
>  Because writing to the current directory is not possible, we write to /tmp/.
>  Suggestions for a better location are welcome.

I have seen this in another (sh) script:

die() {
        echo "$@"
        exit 1
}

T=`mktemp` || die "cannot create temp file"
...
rm $T


Vegard

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