Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] block: qemu-iotests, fix _make_test_img() to work with spaced pathnames

[Eric Blake]

On 10/31/2013 09:57 AM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> _make_test_img() currently works with spaced pathnames only when not
> specifying a backing file.  This fixes it so that the backing file
> argument is properly quoted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc | 13 +++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

As a slight optimization, you could avoid a subshell:

>      # XXX(hch): have global image options?
> -    $QEMU_IMG create -f $IMGFMT $extra_img_options $img_name $image_size 
> 2>&1 | \
> +    (
> +     if [ $use_backing = 1 ]; then
> +        $QEMU_IMG create -f $IMGFMT $extra_img_options -b "$backing_file" 
> "$img_name" $image_size 2>&1
> +     else
> +        $QEMU_IMG create -f $IMGFMT $extra_img_options "$img_name" 
> $image_size 2>&1
> +     fi
> +    ) | \

$QEMU_IMG create -f $IMGFMT $extra_img_options \
  ${backing_file:+-b "$backing_file"} "$img_name" $image_size 2>&1 |

But as not everyone is a shell guru to recognize the ${var+:expansion}
trick, I'm fine with the version you proposed.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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