RE: [PATCH v2 02/10] test/telemetry: fix test calling all commands

[Marat Khalili <marat.khalili@huawei.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday 26 June 2025 09:33
> 
> The problem lies in the use of subshell and pipes and that a failure
> is not propagated.
> Adding a test only the the telemetry script would not catch other
> errors (like for example, if the jq command starts to spew errors).

Yes, I agree.

> The most elegant would be to use errtrace and pipefail options, but
> the errtrace is a bashism (iow not POSIX), and pipefail is POSIX only
> since 2022 and many shell (like dash in Ubuntu 22.04/24.04) don't
> implement it.

Yes, also true.

> We could try something like:
> 
> diff --git a/app/test/suites/test_telemetry.sh
> b/app/test/suites/test_telemetry.sh
> index ca6abe266e..a81b4add90 100755
> --- a/app/test/suites/test_telemetry.sh
> +++ b/app/test/suites/test_telemetry.sh
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ call_all_telemetry() {
>      telemetry_script=$rootdir/usertools/dpdk-telemetry.py
>      echo >$tmpoutput
>      echo "Telemetry commands log:" >>$tmpoutput
> -    for cmd in $(echo / | $telemetry_script | jq -r '.["/"][]')
> +    echo / | $telemetry_script | jq -r '.["/"][]' | while read cmd
>      do
>          for input in $cmd $cmd,0 $cmd,z
>          do
> @@ -25,4 +25,5 @@ call_all_telemetry() {
>      done
>  }
> 
> -(sleep 1 && call_all_telemetry && echo quit) | $@
> +! set -o | grep -q pipefail || set -o pipefail
> +(set -e; ! set -o | grep -q pipefail || set -o pipefail; sleep 1 &&
> call_all_telemetry && echo quit) | $@

I 100% agree with the idea, but sadly I'm not familiar with shell scripting enough to suggest or review this diff. Is `for cmd in` always equivalent to `while read cmd`? Is CI ever executing it in bash for our attempt to set pipefail to be justified? Is it idiomatic? I hope someone else here can help with this.

Perhaps this should just be re-written in Python. It depends on a Python script anyway.