From f1dd78217f0411684fbbd75cc29e7bb89a5b3898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shahoian <ruben.shahoyan@cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:27:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ctf-writer --output-dir=/dev/null with disable CTF and
 metafile writing

---
 Detectors/CTF/workflow/src/CTFWriterSpec.cxx | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Detectors/CTF/workflow/src/CTFWriterSpec.cxx b/Detectors/CTF/workflow/src/CTFWriterSpec.cxx
index 050ad77df5b37..eb700ada8c0b6 100644
--- a/Detectors/CTF/workflow/src/CTFWriterSpec.cxx
+++ b/Detectors/CTF/workflow/src/CTFWriterSpec.cxx
@@ -211,17 +211,23 @@ void CTFWriterSpec::init(InitContext& ic)
 
   mSaveDictAfter = ic.options().get<int>("save-dict-after");
   mCTFAutoSave = ic.options().get<int>("save-ctf-after");
-  mDictDir = o2::utils::Str::rectifyDirectory(ic.options().get<std::string>("ctf-dict-dir"));
-  mCTFDir = o2::utils::Str::rectifyDirectory(ic.options().get<std::string>("output-dir"));
-  mCTFDirFallBack = ic.options().get<std::string>("output-dir-alt");
-  if (mCTFDirFallBack != "/dev/null") {
-    mCTFDirFallBack = o2::utils::Str::rectifyDirectory(mCTFDirFallBack);
-  }
   mCTFMetaFileDir = ic.options().get<std::string>("meta-output-dir");
   if (mCTFMetaFileDir != "/dev/null") {
     mCTFMetaFileDir = o2::utils::Str::rectifyDirectory(mCTFMetaFileDir);
     mStoreMetaFile = true;
   }
+  mDictDir = o2::utils::Str::rectifyDirectory(ic.options().get<std::string>("ctf-dict-dir"));
+  mCTFDir = ic.options().get<std::string>("output-dir");
+  if (mCTFDir != "/dev/null") {
+    mCTFDir = o2::utils::Str::rectifyDirectory(mCTFDir);
+  } else {
+    mWriteCTF = false;
+    mStoreMetaFile = false;
+  }
+  mCTFDirFallBack = ic.options().get<std::string>("output-dir-alt");
+  if (mCTFDirFallBack != "/dev/null") {
+    mCTFDirFallBack = o2::utils::Str::rectifyDirectory(mCTFDirFallBack);
+  }
   mCreateRunEnvDir = !ic.options().get<bool>("ignore-partition-run-dir");
   mMinSize = ic.options().get<int64_t>("min-file-size");
   mMaxSize = ic.options().get<int64_t>("max-file-size");