Re: [LTP] Getting User input data not working

[Garrett C. <yan...@gm...>]

On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:23 AM, ch...@su... wrote:

> Hi!
>> I am using LTP drop released on ltp-full-20120104 version.
>> I have written a testcase to get user input data and call that testcase using "runltp", the command I use to get user input data is "read -t 10 response"
>> But, when enter user input after running "runltp" it is not working. The same testcase is working fine getting user input from command line.
>> Can any one help me why it is not working in LTP, is there any work around on this?
> 
> Apart form this being a silly idea (LTP is automatic testsuite, you
> install it, run it and go away till it's finished) the tests are
> executed by the test driver process (ltp-pan) that is a process group
> leader so there is no way they could read from standard in.
> 
> [This is second attempt to send this mail, the first seems to have
> disapeared somewhere between our mailserver and ltp mailing list]

I agree that putting a testcase into ltp that can't be automated is a showstopper, but I'm curious as to what he op had in mind for this test as there might be some utility to testing some I/O behavior with stdin, stdout, etc.

Fwiw, using pan as-is with the read shell builtin probably won't work though without adding in some more shell-like syntax ;).

Thanks,
-Garrett