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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test that qemu-io fail with non-zero exit code
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+# creator
+owner=nirsof@gmail.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here=`pwd`
+status=1 # failure is the default!
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+ _cleanup_test_img
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+
+_supported_fmt raw
+
+
+size=256K
+_make_test_img $size
+
+echo
+echo "== reading wrong format should fail =="
+$QEMU_IO -f qcow2 -c "read 0 $size" "$TEST_IMG" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir
+test "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" -eq 1 || _fail "did not fail"
+
+echo
+echo "== reading missing file should fail =="
+$QEMU_IO -c "read 0 $size" "$TEST_DIR/missing" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir
+test "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" -eq 1 || _fail "did not fail"
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
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+QA output created by 173
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=262144
+
+== reading wrong format should fail ==
+can't open device TEST_DIR/t.raw: Image is not in qcow2 format
+
+== reading missing file should fail ==
+can't open device TEST_DIR/missing: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/missing': No such file or directory
+*** done
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170 rw auto quick
171 rw auto quick
172 auto
+173 auto