Re: [LTP] [PATCH] kill05: Added proper return code (TPASS) if testcase exit without errors.

From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Francesco RUNDO <francesco.rundo@st.com>
Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] kill05: Added proper return code (TPASS) if testcase exit without errors.
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:32:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110714103204.GA2018@saboteur.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01cc41f3$bf4c0370$3de40a50$@rundo@st.com>

Hi!
> Thanks for your comment.
> 
> Anyway, I know LTP initalizes the return value to 0 (TPASS) but the problem
> is that this return code was "not reported" in the LTP log (in the same way
> used by other testcases) and, moreover, the "kill05" output message was
> misleading as it reported only the message " "kill failed with EPERM"
> without any further message which explained that EPERM was the expected test
> result and then the test worked fine.
> 
> Without above info, the result of the test was not very clear taking into
> account the output message ("kill failed with EPERM") which didn't include
> any further info about:
> 
> 1. LTP exit code (TPASS/TFAIL/TINFO/TBROK...); 
> 2. "obtained result" against "expected ones";

Okay, so the commit description was a bit misleading as return value is
integer nuber returned after process has ceased to exist. I would rather
change it to "kill05 didn't print ...".

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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