[Bug 1331814] Re: Warning messages for handlers are never called
Hamilton Turner
hamiltont at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 06:37:07 UTC 2014
Also, I added a "reference" file for kickstart that lists all commands
with all command options. By doing
$ ./test-kickseed tests/full-full-06-2014.ks
we can see which kickstart options are not currently supported, as they will print out "LOG" messages. It's
not exactly test driven dev, but it's something ;-)
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Title:
Warning messages for handlers are never called
Status in “kickseed” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
Multiple handlers use the following syntax:
eval set -- "$(getopt -o '' -l interpreter: -- "$@")" || {
warn_getopt %pre; return; }
As mentioned in "/usr/share/doc/util-linux-ng-2.17.2/getopt-parse.bash", this will never
call the warning:
# We need TEMP as the `eval set --' would nuke the return value of getopt.
TEMP=`getopt -o ab:c:: --long a-long,b-long:,c-long:: \
-n 'example.bash' -- "$@"`
Here is a simple example to prove this:
#!/bin/sh
trap 'echo ERROR happened' ERR
echo begin
eval set -- "$(false)"
echo end
Because of this, almost every bug report mentions something along the
lines of "getopt printed an error". This is getout outputting to
stderr, but the non-zero exit code is being swallowed and errexit is
not happening.
This coding was probably designed intentionally to disable automatic
exit whenever getopt found an unexpected argument, due to the fact
that this (currently) happens on almost every kickstart file as our
syntax support is quite limited.
However, it also hides the warning from the user, which I believe is
the real bug. Moreover, the only error is printed briefly to a
terminal and then never seen again, which makes it tough for people to
put in bug reports.
Perhaps a better solution would be to use set +x and set -e to
temporarily disable errexit, and use a trap on ERR to ensure that
these errors are caught and printed to both syslog and the current
TTY.
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