Testsuite: wait for queue runner finish (more)

[users/jgh/exim.git] / test / README

diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index e544857889535c0c54a6f5e6bd793742263d4e9e..d971bc7441bca055069f2890b4b48cf9a523482b 100644 (file)
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met:
 
 (9) Exim must be built with TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST support, so that the test
     configs can be placed into it.  A suitable file location is .../exim/test/trusted_configs
+    with content .../exim/test/test-config [fill out the ... to make full
+    paths].  This file should be owner/group matching CONFIGURE_OWNER/GROUP,
+    or root/root.  The config files in .../exim/test/confs/ should be owner/group the same.
     DISABLE_D_OPTION must not be used. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is used, it
     must contain the directory of the test-suite.  WHITELIST_D_MACROS should contain:
     
@@ -1021,7 +1024,10 @@ are of the following kinds:
     (d) If the line starts with ">*eof", nothing is sent and the connection
           is closed.
 
-    The data that is sent starts after the initial '>' sequence.
+    The data that is sent starts after the initial '>' sequence.  Within
+    each line the sequence '\x' followed by two hex digits can be used
+    to specify an arbitrary byte value.  The sequence '\\' specifies a
+    single backslash.
 
 (2) A line that starts with "*sleep" specifies a number of seconds to wait
     before proceeding.
@@ -1035,7 +1041,10 @@ are of the following kinds:
 (5) Otherwise, the line defines the start of an input line that the client
     is expected to send. To allow for lines that start with digits, the line
     may start with '<', which is not taken as part of the input data. If the
-    input does not match, the server bombs out with an error message.
+    lines starts with '<<' then only the characters are expected; no return-
+    linefeed terminator. If the input does not match, the server bombs out
+    with an error message.  Backslash-escape sequences may be used in the
+    line content as for output lines.
 
 Here is a simple example of server use in a test script: