Re: [jamboost] Test system

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-04 09:14:09

David Abrahams wrote:

> > > > Nay, this is not what the method does. It actually does
> > > > rm -rf . && cp -r dir .
> > > > as you already spelled it, not
> > > > mkdir /tmp/another_tmp_dir && cp dir /tmp/another_tmp_dir &&
>
> cd
>
> > > /tmp/another_tmp_dir
> > >
> > > Oh.
> > >
> > > rewrite_cwd - replaces the contents of the current working
> > > directory with the contents of a specified directory.
> >
> > Not yet right -- it rewrites the content of the scracth directory
>
> created
>
> > when the tester object was created, not the current working dir.
>
> Now I'm really confused. You used '.' above, which always refers to the
> CWD. You also said that the creation of the tester sets the CWD to the
> scratch directory.

Use of "." above was wrong, true. I'll try again. 

1. Tester's constructor creates a scratch directory and chdir there.
2. set_tree replaces the content of the scratch directory with the content of 
some other dir, even if user has called chdir manually before, and 
CWD != scratch dir.

So, what is the best name for this semantics?

- Volodya