On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:41 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Another mention of /dev/zero appears in t/helper/test-sha1.sh (not
> to be confused with t/helper/test-sha1.c). This seems to be run
> only with an explicit "make -C t/helper check-sha1" request, so
> perhaps nobody on your platform ran it to get hit by it. I wonder
> if anybody runs this on any platform, to be honest, though.
I vaguely remember Brian added something to test SHA-512 performance
but I can't find it. Maybe when he adds something (if it's not there
already) we can retire this script, or update it to check sha-512 too.
> Duy Cc'ed as the last person to touch that particular target---yes, I
> know I was guilty of introducing it in b65bc21e ("Makefile: add
> framework to verify and bench sha1 implementations.", 2006-06-24).
--
Duy
