Hi,
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> On February 18, 2019 13:46, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > I have been wondering about the whole /dev/zero business. Although we
> > > have b46221ff ("Merge branch 'rb/no-dev-zero-in-test'",
> > > 2019-02-13) in 'master', "git grep /dev/zero t" has hits in
> > > t/helper/test-sha1.sh and t/t4152-am-resume-override-opts.sh, so it
> > > must have been somewhat incomplete to help platforms that lack
> > > /dev/zero in the first place.
> > >
> > > We haven't heard from Dscho in European timezone, but I'm inclined to
> > >
> > > - keep b46221ff in 'master', not reverted.
> > > - apply Max's "t5562: do not reuse output files"
> > >
> > > to 'master' and hope that we can declare victory in this part of the
> > > code ;-). There may be fix-ups for other topics before -rc2 on top of
> > > that, though.
> >
> > Just to make sure you didn't miss the exchange, the above plan is still the
> > latest ("Max's patch is [1]). As I'll be offline most of the day today, you still
> > have time to stop or make me change course to avoid disaster by interjecting
> > (which would be very much appreciated).
>
> No interjection expected. That is what I have been testing, so anticipate that this is correct.
As I wrote in nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1902182249140.45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Max'
patch did not actually fix the hang on the Linux agents.
So unfortunately this plan won't work,
Johannes
