From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Windows: Fix intermittent failures of t7701
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901271740320.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <497F076F.8060509@viscovery.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> We want to catch failures of test-chmtime; but since it appears in a 
> pipe, we cannot access its exit code. Therefore, we at least make sure 
> that it prints time stamps of all files that are passed on its command 
> line.

I use this trick in my valgrind series:

	($PROGRAM; echo $? > exit.code) | $OTHER_PROGRAM &&
	test 0 = "$(cat exit.code)"

Ciao,
Dscho