Otherwise there is a race: if 'git log' finishes writing before the pager terminates and closes the pipe, all is well, and if the pager finishes quickly enough then 'git log' terminates with SIGPIPE. died of signal 13 at /build/buildd/git-1.9~rc1/t/test-terminal.perl line 33. not ok 6 - LESS and LV envvars are set for pagination Noticed on Ubuntu PPA builders, where the race was lost about half the time. Compare v1.7.0.2~6^2 (tests: Fix race condition in t7006-pager, 2010-02-22). Reported-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Anders Kaseorg wrote: > On 01/06/2014 09:14 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> + PAGER="env >pager-env.out" && >> + export PAGER && >> + >> + test_terminal git log [...] > On the Ubuntu PPA builders, I’m seeing this new test fail with > SIGPIPE about half the time: > > died of signal 13 at /build/buildd/git-1.9~rc1/t/test-terminal.perl line 33. > not ok 6 - LESS and LV envvars are set for pagination Good catch. Sorry for the trouble. t/t7006-pager.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t7006-pager.sh b/t/t7006-pager.sh index 7fe3367..b9365b4 100755 --- a/t/t7006-pager.sh +++ b/t/t7006-pager.sh @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ test_expect_failure TTY 'pager runs from subdir' ' test_expect_success TTY 'LESS and LV envvars are set for pagination' ' ( sane_unset LESS LV && - PAGER="env >pager-env.out" && + PAGER="env >pager-env.out; wc" && export PAGER && test_terminal git log -- 1.9.rc1.175.g0b1dcb5 -- 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