On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 10:58:09AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 05:00:33AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > A couple of tests use perl only for generating a string of > > N characters long. Instead of requiring perl to run a few > > tests, use shell built-in commands and don't repeatedly run > > a separate subshell just to get a string of characters. > > h > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks, applied. .... and I have to revert the patch. It's using a non-standard shell construction which fails on strict POSIX compliant shells, such as dash. - Ted