[p4] Amusing 2006.1 trigger failure

Chuck Karish chuck.karish at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 05:02:45 PDT 2006


On 10/2/06, Ivey, William <william_ivey at bmc.com> wrote:
> Turned out that a "trick" accepted by triggers in 2005.1 no
> longer works:
>
>   len_chk change-submit //dev/... "$HOME/bin/namelen.trgr %change% '%user%@%client%'"
>
> In 2005.1 $HOME was resolved, but that's no longer the case
> in 2006.1.

>From the relesae notes:

Bugs fixed in 2006.1

	#99829 **
	    Shell expansion of 'p4' command line arguments no longer
	    occurs when the command invokes a trigger.
	    (Bug #20599)


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