On Wed 01 Aug 2012 at 01:26PM, Dan Price wrote:
> On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 03:40PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > >I'll just write it to stderr instead-- it seems more sane than
> > >inventing yet another new exception type. The other option would
> > >be to print nothing, which would also be fine with me.
> >
> > The silent approach may be best; it should be pretty obvious if the
> > terminal type is screwed up since the progress tracking will be
> > different. And if it isn't obvious, then the caller needs to check
> > that.
>
> Ok, so I have a new version of this fix posted. Here are the
> changes:
>
> - Now silent on a TERM it doesn't understand; so the
> core fix is now very trivial.
>
> - Turns out the previous tests sometimes interacted badly
> with the api suite-- mostly due to the way libcurses
> initializes itself; once you've called setupterm() once,
> subsequent calls in the same process have no effect, which
> makes testing various edge cases impossible. So I
> reimplemented the tests in the CLI suite; this necessitated
> adding a rough variant of Popen and of cmdline_run which
> allows one to launch tests in a pty. I also migrated a
> pkglint test which did essentially the same thing to use the
> new API.
>
> It's the usual "3 lines to fix the bug, 100 lines to test the fix."
>
> https://cr.opensolaris.org/action/browse/pkg/dp/setupterm/
Sorry-- I forgot that I needed to add a few more things here-- I
left out support for code coverage. I'll repost this in another
hour or so.
-dp
--
Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering
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