Re: Shell quoting in Eshell (was: eshell-batch-file)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:36:57 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> 
> > Why do we expect to see "killed" or "interrupt" in this case?
> 
> Eshell intends to print the exit message from the process sentinel of 
> the tail process here (unless the message starts with "finished" or 
> "exited"). After thinking this over, I realized that the test failure 
> you encountered was actually a race condition: Eshell tries to kill all 
> the processes in the pipeline, which -- if Eshell is fast enough -- 
> sends a signal to the tail process, making us print the exit message. 
> However, if Eshell is slow, the tail process might exit on its own 
> before we can signal it, leading to no message.
> 
> I've now fixed this test so that we check that there are zero or one 
> exit messages (the old code was too lenient in some regards).

The test succeeds, thanks.

> I think the only remaining thing to do here is to figure out why you 
> needed to change 'eshell-command-result--equal'. I imagine this is 
> because I made a mistake somewhere with case normalization (my guess is 
> in the globbing tests). Hopefully it's just a problem with the tests, 
> but it could be that there's a bug hiding in Eshell proper.

I don't see how you could fix this in the tests, since this is a basic
problem with comparing file names on MS-Windows.  See below.

> Could you try the diff below and report back the failures when you get a 
> chance?

Here:

  Test esh-cmd-test/which/plain/external-program backtrace:
    signal(ert-test-failed (((should (eshell-command-result--equal comma
    ert-fail(((should (eshell-command-result--equal command (eshell-test
    (if (unwind-protect (setq value-7 (apply fn-5 args-6)) (setq form-de
    (let (form-description-9) (if (unwind-protect (setq value-7 (apply f
    (let ((value-7 'ert-form-evaluation-aborted-8)) (let (form-descripti
    (let* ((fn-5 #'eshell-command-result--equal) (args-6 (condition-case
    (let ((eshell-module-loading-messages nil)) (let* ((fn-5 #'eshell-co
    (let ((ert--infos (cons (cons "Command logs: " #'eshell-get-debug-lo
    eshell-command-result-equal("which sh" "d:/usr/MSYS/bin/sh.exe\n")
    #f(lambda () [t] (let* ((fn-167 #'executable-find) (args-168 (condit
    #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xc12a3827bbdeed7>)()
    handler-bind-1(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xc12a3827bbdeed7>
    ert--run-test-internal(#s(ert--test-execution-info :test #s(ert-test
    ert-run-test(#s(ert-test :name esh-cmd-test/which/plain/external-pro
    ert-run-or-rerun-test(#s(ert--stats :selector ... :tests ... :test-m
    ert-run-tests((not (or (tag :unstable) (tag :nativecomp))) #f(compil
    ert-run-tests-batch((not (or (tag :unstable) (tag :nativecomp))))
    ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit((not (or (tag :unstable) (tag :nativeco
    eval((ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit '(not (or (tag :unstable) (tag :n
    command-line-1(("-L" ";." "-l" "ert" "--eval" "(setq treesit-extra-l
    command-line()
    normal-top-level()
  Test esh-cmd-test/which/plain/external-program condition:
      Command logs: command: "which sh"

      (ert-test-failed
       ((should
         (eshell-command-result--equal command
                                       (eshell-test-command-result command)
                                       result))
        :form
        (eshell-command-result--equal "which sh"
                                      #("D:/usr/MSYS/bin/sh.exe\n" 22 23
                                        (field command-output front-sticky
                                               ... rear-nonsticky
                                               ... insert-in-front-hooks ...))
                                      "d:/usr/MSYS/bin/sh.exe\n")
        :value nil :explanation
        (nonequal-result (command "which sh")
                         (result #("D:/usr/MSYS/bin/sh.exe\n" 22 23 ...))
                         (expected "d:/usr/MSYS/bin/sh.exe\n"))))
     FAILED  59/66  esh-cmd-test/which/plain/external-program (0.003953 sec) at 
lisp/eshell/esh-cmd-tests.el:538

IOW: you run "which SOMETHING" and pretend to know how it will
capitalize the drive letter.