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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2013-07-31 18:41:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2013-07-31 18:41:45 +0100 |
| commit | 02fe4bfce7b93c54e7e0e1a68a822dcd7764b30f (patch) | |
| tree | e27f4fea6c15482c50d8b132c335f79ece61149d | |
| parent | 8e8b0139119f102b08283c528ddbae70728bc188 (diff) | |
| download | cmdtest-02fe4bfce7b93c54e7e0e1a68a822dcd7764b30f.tar.gz | |
Add to README mention of environment cleanup
| -rw-r--r-- | README.yarn | 5 |
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diff --git a/README.yarn b/README.yarn index 7006a66..16f7522 100644 --- a/README.yarn +++ b/README.yarn @@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ The following keywords are defined. path to the directory it was invoked from (by convention, the root of the source tree of the project). + The test runner removes all other environment variables, except + `TERM`, `USER`, `USERNAME`, `LOGNAME`, `HOME`, and `PATH`. It also + forces `SHELL` set to `/bin/sh`, and `LC_ALL` set to `C`, in order + to have as clean an environment as possible for tests to run in. + The shell commands get invoked with `/bin/sh -eu`, and need to be written accordingly. Be careful about commands that return a non-zero exit code. There will eventually be a library of shell |