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[PATCH 3/3] Valgrind support: check for more than just programming errors

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 25, 2009, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID
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This patch makes --valgrind try to override _all_ Git binaries in the PATH, and it will make calling *.sh and *.perl scripts directly an error.

While it is not strictly necessary to look through the whole PATH to find git binaries to override, it is in line with running an expensive test (which valgrind is) to make extra sure that no binary is tested that actually comes from the git.git checkout.

In the same spirit, we can test that neither our test suite nor our scripts try to run the *.sh or *.perl scripts directly.

It's more like a "because we can" than a "this is tightly connected to valgrind", but in the author's opinion "because we can" is "so we should" in this case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
	As I said, I vividly remember chasing a bug which turned out to be 
	a Git program that was installed, but no longer in git.git, yet 
	the test suite used it.
	This would catch it.
 t/test-lib.sh |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 67d7883..bdfb30f 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -496,23 +496,35 @@ else
 	# override all git executables in TEST_DIRECTORY/..
 	GIT_VALGRIND=$TEST_DIRECTORY/valgrind
 	mkdir -p "$GIT_VALGRIND"/bin
-	ls $TEST_DIRECTORY/../git* 2> /dev/null |
-	while read symlink_target
+	OLDIFS=$IFS
+	IFS=:
+	for path in $PATH $TEST_DIRECTORY/..
 	do
-		# handle only executables
-		test -x "$symlink_target" || continue
-
-		base=$(basename "$symlink_target")
-		# do not override scripts
-		if test ! -d "$symlink_target" &&
-		    test "#!" != "$(head -c 2 < "$symlink_target")"
-		then
-			symlink_target=../valgrind.sh
-		fi
-		# create the link, or replace it if it is out of date
-		make_symlink "$symlink_target" \
-			"$GIT_VALGRIND/bin/$base" || exit
+		ls "$path"/git "$path"/git-* 2> /dev/null |
+		while read file
+		do
+			# handle only executables
+			test -x "$file" || continue
+
+			base=$(basename "$file")
+			symlink_target=$TEST_DIRECTORY/../$base
+			# do not override scripts
+			if test -x "$symlink_target" &&
+			    test ! -d "$symlink_target" &&
+			    test "#!" != "$(head -c 2 < "$symlink_target")"
+			then
+				symlink_target=../valgrind.sh
+			fi
+			case "$base" in
+			*.sh|*.perl)
+				symlink_target=../unprocessed-script
+			esac
+			# create the link, or replace it if it is out of date
+			make_symlink "$symlink_target" \
+				"$GIT_VALGRIND/bin/$base" || exit
+		done
 	done
+	IFS=$OLDIFS
 	PATH=$GIT_VALGRIND/bin:$PATH
 	GIT_EXEC_PATH=$GIT_VALGRIND/bin
 	export GIT_VALGRIND
-- 
1.6.1.482.g7d54be
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  5. Jeff KingJan 20, 2009
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  9. 1/2 Add valgrind support in test scriptsJohannes Schindelin, Jan 20, 2009
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