Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > +sub packet_initialize { > + my ($name, $version) = @_; > + > + ( packet_txt_read() eq ( 0, $name . "-client" ) ) || die "bad initialize"; > + ( packet_txt_read() eq ( 0, "version=" . $version ) ) || die "bad version"; > + ( packet_bin_read() eq ( 1, "" ) ) || die "bad version end"; This is not a new issue and it is a bit surprising that nobody noticed when edcc8581 ("convert: add filter.<driver>.process option", 2016-10-16) was reviewed, but the above is quite broken. packet_txt_read() returns a 2-element list, and on the right hand side of "eq" also has a list with (two, elements), but this takes the last element of the list on each side, and compares them. The elading 0/1 we see above do not matter, which means we do not require to see a flush at the end of the version---a simple empty string or an EOF would do, which is definitely not what we want. #!/usr/bin/perl sub p { my ($res, $buf) = @_; return ($res, $buf); } if (p(0, "") eq (-1, 2, 3, "")) { print "ok\n"; } It is fine to leave the original code broken at this step while we purely move the lines around, and hopefully this will be corrected in a later step in the series (I am responding as I read on, so I do not yet know at which patch that happens in this series). Thanks.