Re: [PATCH] t/known-leaky: add list of known-leaky test scripts

On 25 February 2018 at 04:48, Kaartic Sivaraam
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Wednesday 21 February 2018 02:14 AM, Martin Ågren wrote:

quoted

To sum up: I probably won't be looking into Travis-ing such a blacklist
in the near future.

Just thinking out loud, how about having a white-list instead of a
black-list and using it to run only those tests in the white list.
Something like,

t/white_list
------------
t0000
t0001

To run
------

cd t/
for test in $(cat white_list)
do
    white_list_tests="$white_list_tests $test*"
done
make SANITIZE=leak $white_list_tests

Yeah, that would also work. An incomplete whitelist can't cause errors
for those running other tests, as an incomplete blacklist could. So
that's good. At some point, the whitelist would need to be turned into a
blacklist. At the very latest when the whitelist is the full set of
tests, in order to flip the default of new tests. ;-) Right now, I think
whitelists and blacklists are about equally useful.

Let's hope we're heading for a future where a blacklist gets more and
more feasible, whereas a whitelist would get longer and longer. ;-)

Martin