X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/8c4f17b33b068547ee8791c89f32d2453e666096..97e939dfe2:/test/README diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index 8453d317b..c08b63b0d 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ There are some options for the ./runtest script itself: maintainer after making a change to the code that affects a lot of tests (for example, the wording of a message). + -SLOW For very slow hosts that appear to have Heisenbugs, delay before + comparing output files from a testcase + The options for ./runtest must be given first (but after the name of the binary, if present). Any further options, that is, items on the command line that start with a hyphen, are passed to the Exim binary when it is run as part @@ -1027,11 +1030,16 @@ Lines in client scripts are of two kinds: line is input to be sent to the server. Backslash escaping is done as described below, but no trailing "\r\n" is sent. -(4) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any +(4) If a line begin with three '<' characters and a space, the rest of the + line is a filename; the content of the file is inserted intto the script + at this point. + +(5) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any occurrences of \r and \n in the line are turned into carriage return and linefeed, respectively. This is used for testing PIPELINING. Any sequences of \x followed by two hex digits are converted to the equvalent byte value. Any other character following a \ is sent verbatim. + The line is sent with a trailing "\r\n". Here is a simple example: