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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/dynevent_limitations.tc | 23 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/dynevent_limitations.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/dynevent_limitations.tc index 6b94b678741a..f656bccb1a14 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/dynevent_limitations.tc +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/dynevent_limitations.tc @@ -7,11 +7,32 @@ MAX_ARGS=128 EXCEED_ARGS=$((MAX_ARGS + 1)) +# bash and dash evaluate variables differently. +# dash will evaluate '\\' every time it is read whereas bash does not. +# +# TEST_STRING="$TEST_STRING \\$i" +# echo $TEST_STRING +# +# With i=123 +# On bash, that will print "\123" +# but on dash, that will print the escape sequence of \123 as the \ will +# be interpreted again in the echo. +# +# Set a variable "bs" to save a double backslash, then echo that +# to "ts" to see if $ts changed or not. If it changed, it's dash, +# if not, it's bash, and then bs can equal a single backslash. +bs='\\' +ts=`echo $bs` +if [ "$ts" = '\\' ]; then + # this is bash + bs='\' +fi + check_max_args() { # event_header TEST_STRING=$1 # Acceptable for i in `seq 1 $MAX_ARGS`; do - TEST_STRING="$TEST_STRING \\$i" + TEST_STRING="$TEST_STRING $bs$i" done echo "$TEST_STRING" >> dynamic_events echo > dynamic_events |