[LTP] [PATCH v2 0/3] LTP_TIMEOUT for shell API

[Clemens Famulla-Conrad]

On Fri, 2019-09-13 at 14:58 +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
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> Questions:
> * I don't know how to detect TST_TIMEOUT settings made by user.
> That's
> the difference from C, where user cannot overwrite tst_test->test.
> Am I missing something or it's not possible to detect whether
> variable
> was set in code or by user?
> Maybe that was the reason TST_TIMEOUT wasn't set, but rather fixed.

Maybe we could initialize all variables in tst_test.sh. So we overwrite
 values given by user/environment. But I in general I think, if someone
play with TST_* variables, it's up to him what happen.
And you already added this WARNING!

> * Code allowing $LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL being also float making code a bit
> complex. If you don't like it, I suggest to change $LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL
> being for both C and shell integer, but I'd prefer the possibility to
> be float.
> (it's might be handy being able to set timeout 1.33x which is far
> less
> than 2x for int).

I also don't see the need of such fine granular multiplier.