Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit code

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

on Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 06:05:21PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit 
> code"):
> > On 25/07/16 12:25, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > In particular, Error might mask a failure.
> > 
> > Indeed it could.  Either should cause a prompt investigation and effort
> > to resolve the issues, but one must be more severe than the other and
> > this is the way things are specified.
> 
> Is this really how XenRT expects things to be explained to it ?
> 
> This seems to be a very unusual approach.  Normally, in any program,
> the unbounded class of errors will be always reported in the exit
> status.
> 
> If we are running xtf inside osstest, I trust we aren't relying on
> this aggregated exit status ?
> 

No, we don't rely on aggregated exit status.

Wei.

> Ian.

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