allow ignoring files for testing

for example, to ignore known-bad tests

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/buildscripts/smoke.py b/buildscripts/smoke.py
index c46b5d1879d..f9dc64eba24 100755
--- a/buildscripts/smoke.py
+++ b/buildscripts/smoke.py
@@ -471,6 +471,9 @@ def main():
     parser.add_option('--nopreallocj', dest='no_preallocj', default=False,
                       action="store_true",
                       help='Do not preallocate journal files in tests')
+    parser.add_option('--ignore', dest='ignore_files', default=None,
+		      help='Pattern of files to ignore in tests')    
+
     global tests
     (options, tests) = parser.parse_args()
 
@@ -508,6 +511,10 @@ def main():
     elif options.mode == 'files':
         tests = [(os.path.abspath(test), True) for test in tests]
 
+    if options.ignore_files != None :
+        ignore_patt = re.compile( options.ignore_files )
+        tests = filter( lambda x : ignore_patt.search( x[0] ) == None, tests )
+
     if not tests:
         raise Exception( "no tests specified" )