[libvirt PATCH] tests: poison $HOME and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR env variables

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed May 6 13:15:45 UTC 2020


On 5/4/20 4:39 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> To attempt to catch unit tests which accidentally create files in $HOME,
> or $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, poison these env vars by pointing them to
> directories which don't exist. This should give easier to debug test
> failures. For example:
> 
> $ VIR_TEST_DEBUG=1 ./qemuhotplugtest
> Could not initialize HostdevManager - operation failed: Failed to create state dir '/bad-test-used-env-xdg-runtime-dir/libvirt/hostdevmgr'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
>   tests/testutils.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

Michal




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