subunit: Add a sh macro for skipping a test

Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/testprogs/blackbox/subunit.sh b/testprogs/blackbox/subunit.sh
index 9b047a2d5df..3ed08826ee5 100755
--- a/testprogs/blackbox/subunit.sh
+++ b/testprogs/blackbox/subunit.sh
@@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ subunit_error_test () {
   echo "]"
 }
 
+subunit_skip_test () {
+  # emit the current protocol skip-marker for test $1, and emit stdin as
+  # the error text.
+  # we use stdin because the failure message can be arbitrarily long, and this
+  # makes it convenient to write in scripts (using <<END syntax.
+  echo "skip: $1 ["
+  cat -
+  echo "]"
+}
+
 testit () {
 	name="$1"
 	shift