Re: [PATCH] xfstests: before test execution, print test number to syslog

[Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/5/2012 2:23 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 01:26:55PM +0100, Stefan Behrens wrote:
>> When the xfstests are executed in a batch (like "check 001-299")
>> and produce syslog output, it is helpful to know which test was
>> causing the output. Therefore each time a test is started, a
>> syslog message is generated that contains the number of the
>> xfstest.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  check |    1 +
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/check b/check
>> index f792009..883edcc 100755
>> --- a/check
>> +++ b/check
>> @@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ do
>>      start=`_wallclock`
>>      $timestamp && echo -n " ["`date "+%T"`"]"
>>      [ ! -x $seq ] && chmod u+x $seq # ensure we can run it
>> +    logger "run xfstest $seq"
>>      ./$seq >$tmp.rawout 2>&1
>>      sts=$?
>>      $timestamp && _timestamp
> 
> Only thing I'd suggest here is that errors (e.g. logger is not
> installed) are redirected to /dev/null so there isn't additional
> noise if we fail to log to syslog.

Patch v2 is sent which checks that logger can be executed. Additional
output cannot happen according to the sources. Thanks!


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.