Hi Ben, On 15 March 2016 at 05:33, Ben Elliston <b...@air.net.au> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 10:20:57PM +0100, Yvan Roux wrote: > >> there is an issue when remote testing testcases which check an >> output pattern with an explicit '\n' at the end. rsh_exec >> explicitly removes it to behave as 'exec', I don't know if something >> changed in 'exec' behavior since these lines were checked in in 2001 >> or if it still removes a '\n' in some configs, but there is a >> mismatch between native, where these kind of tests are ok, and >> remote, where they fail. > > Natively, exec strips the newline (and there are no occurrences of > "keenewline" in the source tree; I grepped). Here's a simple test > script (foo.exp): > > set x [exec uptime] > set x2 [rsh_exec remotebox uptime "" "" ""] > > note "local: >${x}<" > note "remote:>[lindex $x2 1]<" > > No newline in either case, which is what I would have expected.
Yes, I agree, but when we do native testing Tcl exec is not used to execute the testcase, it is done by the spawn command, and with this test script we do have a newline: set x3 [remote_exec unix uptime ""] note "unix native:>[lindex $x3 1]<" So, I understand that rsh_exec has to be consistent with Tcl exec, but ot have consistency between native and remote testing, maybe the right fix is to add the "keepnewline" flag handling to rsh_exec nad use that flag when calling this routine in remote_exec. Cheers, Yvan _______________________________________________ DejaGnu mailing list DejaGnu@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dejagnu