"make check" times

DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
Wed Apr 1 23:05:36 GMT 2020


Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> Strictly speaking a safe "read" would be IFS= read -r line (IFS= to avoid 
> stripping leading whitespace, -r to avoid backslash escapes being 
> processed).  However, in this case that's not needed because valid test 
> result lines do not start with whitespace and do not contain backslash 
> (and nor do they start -n or -e, being cases where the "echo" would be 
> unsafe).

I did think of those, but yeah, we're parsing our own data and it's
"safe".



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