From: Ruud van der Pas <ruud.vanderpas@oracle.com>
To: "binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: The use of the name tmpdir in the tests
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:53:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C95C6857-C57B-4B26-AF23-B5CE9A0B4F62@oracle.com> (raw)
Hi team,
This is an absolute detail, but as I am working on the test suite
for gprofng, I noticed the use of a directory called "tmpdir".
I count about 155 .exp files across binutils that use it:
$ grep -sw tmpdir `find . -name "*".exp -print` | awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print $1}' | uniq | wc
155 155 6000
$
The thing is that in the case of gprofng at least, this is far from
a temporary directory. It is going to contain the generated experiment
data that is crucial for troubleshooting in case of a failure.
Of course we could place those experiments elsewhere, but my idea
was to give tmpdir a more meaningful name.
Are there any objections against doing so? For example, will
certain scripts fail?
If not, any suggestion what would be a good name? I'm not that
creative so don't get any further than "results" or "expresults"
and am definitely open to suggestions.
Kind regards, Ruud
next reply other threads:[~2023-06-15 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-15 21:53 Ruud van der Pas [this message]
2023-06-16 6:11 ` Jan Beulich
2023-06-16 6:15 ` Ruud van der Pas
2023-06-16 10:08 ` Nick Clifton
2023-06-17 10:38 ` Ruud van der Pas
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