On February 9, 2019 3:40, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 09.02.19 um 05:24 schrieb Jeff King:
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 05:53:53PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> >
> >>> diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh index
> >>> 92cf8f812c..4afab14431 100644
> >>> --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> >>> +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> >>> @@ -1302,3 +1302,8 @@ test_set_port () {
> >>> port=$(($port + ${GIT_TEST_STRESS_JOB_NR:-0}))
> >>> eval $var=$port
> >>> }
> >>> +
> >>> +# Generate an output of $1 bytes of all zeroes (NULs, not ASCII zeroes).
> >>> +gen_zero_bytes () {
> >>> + perl -e 'print "\0" x $ARGV[0]' "$@"
> >>> +}
> >>
> >> This function does work on platform, so it's good.
> >
> > Great. Since it sounds like you're preparing some patches to deal with
> > /dev/zero elsewhere, do you want to wrap it up in a patch as part of
> > that?
>
> Please do not use yes to generate an infinite amount of bytes. Our
> implementation of yes() in test-lib.sh generates only 99 lines.
>
> Perhaps do this.
>
> ----- 8< -----
> Subject: [PATCH] t5318: avoid /dev/zero
>
> Some platforms do not offer /dev/zero. Use printf and tr to generate a
> certain amount of NUL bytes.
>
> Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> t/t5318-commit-graph.sh | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh index
> 16d10ebce8..04d394274f 100755
> --- a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
> +++ b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
> @@ -383,7 +383,8 @@ corrupt_graph_and_verify() {
> cp $objdir/info/commit-graph commit-graph-backup &&
> printf "$data" | dd of="$objdir/info/commit-graph" bs=1
> seek="$pos" conv=notrunc &&
> dd of="$objdir/info/commit-graph" bs=1 seek="$zero_pos" count=0
> &&
> - dd if=/dev/zero of="$objdir/info/commit-graph" bs=1
> seek="$zero_pos" count=$(($orig_size - $zero_pos)) &&
> + printf "%0*d" $(($orig_size - $zero_pos)) 0 | tr 0 '\0' |
> + dd of="$objdir/info/commit-graph" bs=1 seek="$zero_pos"
> &&
> test_must_fail git commit-graph verify 2>test_err &&
> grep -v "^+" test_err >err &&
> test_i18ngrep "$grepstr" err
> --
> 2.20.1.86.gb0de946387
This would be fine with me. I'm going to prepare an alternative and let the committers decide.
