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

From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Jeff King'" <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "'brian m. carlson'" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'Linux Kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<git-packagers@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop)
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 11:53:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000201d4c097$f91c4080$eb54c180$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190209042456.GB18286@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On February 8, 2019 23:25, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 05:53:53PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> 
> > > diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh index
> > > 92cf8f812c..4afab14431 100644
> > > --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> > > +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> > > @@ -1302,3 +1302,8 @@ test_set_port () {
> > >  	port=$(($port + ${GIT_TEST_STRESS_JOB_NR:-0}))
> > >  	eval $var=$port
> > >  }
> > > +
> > > +# Generate an output of $1 bytes of all zeroes (NULs, not ASCII zeroes).
> > > +gen_zero_bytes () {
> > > +	perl -e 'print "\0" x $ARGV[0]' "$@"
> > > +}
> >
> > This function does work on platform, so it's good.
> 
> Great. Since it sounds like you're preparing some patches to deal with
> /dev/zero elsewhere, do you want to wrap it up in a patch as part of that?

That's the plan. 😊 We're currently running a full test, so that takes time (32 hours on this box).

Cheers,
Randall