Re: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop)

From: brian m. carlson
Date: Fri Feb 08 2019 - 17:18:44 EST


On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 05:12:43PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> I'm happy to modify the test (it is in one spot), to make a decision based on:
> a) whether /dev/zero exists
> b) whether the system is a NonStop
> c) something else
>
> What would you all prefer? It doesn't matter to me one way or another, as long as I can get the dependency to /dev/zero removed so tests will run here.

My preference is that we wrap the yes/tr invocation into a function
(maybe "infinite_nul") and use that where we currently require
/dev/zero.
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