The `test_copy_bytes()` helper function copies up to N bytes from stdin
to stdout. This is implemented using Perl, but it can be trivially
adapted to instead use dd(1).
Refactor the helper accordingly, which allows a bunch of tests to pass
when Perl is not available.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx>
---
t/test-lib-functions.sh | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 377f08a1428..c4b4d3a4c7f 100644
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -1640,17 +1640,7 @@ test_match_signal () {
# Read up to "$1" bytes (or to EOF) from stdin and write them to stdout.
test_copy_bytes () {
- perl -e '
- my $len = $ARGV[1];
- while ($len > 0) {
- my $s;
- my $nread = sysread(STDIN, $s, $len);
- die "cannot read: $!" unless defined($nread);
- last unless $nread;
- print $s;
- $len -= $nread;
- }
- ' - "$1"
+ dd ibs=1 count="$1" 2>/dev/null
}
# run "$@" inside a non-git directory
--
2.49.0.472.ge94155a9ec.dirty
