Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:33:14PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > >> (Linux is my main platform, but I like to keep cygwin working because it has >> kept me sane on Windows ever since (about) 1995 ...) >> "Stranger in a strange land" ;-) > > I used a different trick around the same time to keep me sane from > Windows, but I think it involved "dd" and "/dev/zero"... ;-) That's a solution I would have been keen to try, but my employer at the time would not have liked that idea ... >> >> This patch fixes the test for me. > > Great. I was guessing blindly when I wrote it, but having seen the perl > bug above, it all makes sense. > > We should probably wrap it. I'm planning to queue this on top of Chris's > patch: Unfortunately, I haven't had time yet to test this patch. (Early this week, I went into hospital for a "minor" surgical procedure - I have not yet fully recovered). The patch looks good and I don't anticipate any problems. I will hopefully test it soon (I see it's in pu now) and let you know. [snip patch] ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html