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[PATCH 1/2] tests: check error message from run_command

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 20, 2011, 10:35 UTC
Message-ID
<20110420103508.GB6027@elie>
In-Reply-To
<20110420103319.GA6027@elie>

In git versions starting at v1.7.5-rc0~29^2 until v1.7.5-rc3~2 (Revert "run-command: prettify -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE workaround", 2011-04-18) fixed it, the run_command facility would write a truncated error message when the command is present but cannot be executed for some other reason. For example, if I add a 'hello' command to git:

	$ echo 'echo hello' >git-hello
	$ chmod +x git-hello
	$ PATH=.:$PATH git hello
	hello
and make it non-executable, this is what I normally get:
	$ chmod -x git-hello
	$ git hello
	fatal: cannot exec 'git-hello': Permission denied
But with the problematic versions, we get disturbing output:
	$ PATH=.:$PATH git hello
	fatal: $
Add some tests to make sure it doesn't happen again.

The hello-script used in these tests uses cat instead of echo because on Windows the bash spawned by git converts LF to CRLF in text written by echo while the bash running tests does not, causing the test to fail if "echo" is used. Thanks to Hannes for noticing.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
---
 t/t0061-run-command.sh |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 test-run-command.c     |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t0061-run-command.sh b/t/t0061-run-command.sh
index 10b26e4..8d4938f 100755
--- a/t/t0061-run-command.sh
+++ b/t/t0061-run-command.sh
@@ -7,8 +7,31 @@ test_description='Test run command'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
+cat >hello-script <<-EOF
+	#!$SHELL_PATH
+	cat hello-script
+EOF
+>empty
+
 test_expect_success 'start_command reports ENOENT' '
 	test-run-command start-command-ENOENT ./does-not-exist
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'run_command can run a command' '
+	cat hello-script >hello.sh &&
+	chmod +x hello.sh &&
+	test-run-command run-command ./hello.sh >actual 2>err &&
+
+	test_cmp hello-script actual &&
+	test_cmp empty err
+'
+
+test_expect_success POSIXPERM 'run_command reports EACCES' '
+	cat hello-script >hello.sh &&
+	chmod -x hello.sh &&
+	test_must_fail test-run-command run-command ./hello.sh 2>err &&
+
+	grep "fatal: cannot exec.*hello.sh" err
+'
+
 test_done
diff --git a/test-run-command.c b/test-run-command.c
index 0612bfa..37918e1 100644
--- a/test-run-command.c
+++ b/test-run-command.c
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		fprintf(stderr, "FAIL %s\n", argv[1]);
 		return 1;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(argv[1], "run-command"))
+		exit(run_command(&proc));
 
 	fprintf(stderr, "check usage\n");
 	return 1;
-- 
1.7.5.rc2
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  1. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2011
  2. Jeff KingApr 18, 2011
  3. Jeff KingApr 18, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2011
  5. Jeff KingApr 18, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2011
  7. Andreas SchwabApr 18, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2011
  9. Jonathan NiederApr 18, 2011
  10. run-command: write full error message in die_childJonathan Nieder, Apr 19, 2011
  11. Johannes SixtApr 20, 2011
  12. 0/2 Re: run-command: write full error message in die_childJonathan Nieder, Apr 20, 2011
  13. 1/2 tests: check error message from run_commandJonathan Nieder, Apr 20, 2011
  14. 2/2 run-command: handle short writes and EINTR in die_childJonathan Nieder, Apr 20, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 19, 2011
  16. report which $PATH entry had trouble running execvp(3)Junio C Hamano, Apr 20, 2011
  17. Jeff KingApr 20, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 21, 2011
  19. Johannes SixtApr 20, 2011
  20. Jonathan NiederApr 20, 2011

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