Re: [PATCH 4/4] selftests: ftrace: Output only to console with "--logdir -"

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 22:06:58 +0900
Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 12:25:06PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue,  4 Jul 2017 15:38:55 +0900
> > Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > +    local testlog=`mktemp $LOG_DIR/${testname}-log.XXXXXX`
> > > +  else
> > > +    local testlog=`/proc/self/fd/1`  
> > 
> > cute trick.  
> 
> Shouldn't this be:
> 
>    local testlog=/proc/self/fd/1
> 
> without the backticks and subshell? We just want to write to the stdout
> file not execute it.
> 
> Or am missing something.

Good eyes. I mistook those as quotes and not backticks.

-- Steve