linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests: Make run

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Message-Id: <20120130155105.029b02fb.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:51:05 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: Make run_tests executable

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:04:29 +0100
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:

> Make the main script that launches the tests to
> become executable. Otherwise people need to launch
> it as an argument to a new bash instance.
> 

That's a feature ;)

The x bit can easily get lost on kernel scripts.  For example, if
someone upgrades their kernel with patch(1) and the patch adds or
renames the script, the x bit gets lost.

If we were to set the x bit for the subset of people who get their
scripts direct from a git repository then those people might write and
distribute tools which fail when used by people who have lost their x
bit.  I've seen this happen at least once before.

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