Re: Updating the test suite (Was: commit: ldap/tests run.in)

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Hallvard B Furuseth writes:
> I'm not certain how I feel about my own suggestion here, but:
>
> Each test could give each program invocation a name which is unique for
> the test.
>
> Always invoke programs with a function Invoke():
>
>   Invoke NAME [--bg 'description' | --retcode] command arg...

Ouch - I forgot about >redirection, |pipes and `backtick commands`.
I wonder if there are shells where
   function <foo >bar
runs the function in subprocess, like I've seen some portable shell
programming doc say that
   for i ... ; done <foo >bar
does.  If so we' have to write
    Invoke ... --io '< foo >bar' command ...
at least for background processes, so $! will be correct.
Not pretty.

-- 
Hallvard