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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Cc: '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: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 11:50:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190208165052.GC23461@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01d4bf9e$a508eab0$ef1ac010$@nexbridge.com>

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 06:08:33AM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:

> t5318 is rather problematic and I have no good way to fix this. There
> is no /dev/zero on the platform, and the corrupt_graph_and_verify
> hard-codes if=/dev/zero, which is a linux-specific pseudo device.
> Please provide a more platform independent way of testing this
> feature. Pretty much all subtests from 46 onward fail as a result.

We did discuss this at the time of the patch, but it seems we already
use /dev/zero in a bunch of places:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqbm57rkg5.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/

Were you just skipping the other tests before?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-08 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08 11:08 [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop) Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 16:50 ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-02-08 17:49   ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 18:03     ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 18:29       ` Johannes Sixt
2019-02-08 19:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-08 18:47       ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 19:15         ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 19:26           ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 19:31             ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 20:38               ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 22:07               ` brian m. carlson
2019-02-08 22:12                 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 22:18                   ` brian m. carlson
2019-02-08 22:36                     ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 22:35                   ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 22:53                     ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-09  4:24                       ` Jeff King
2019-02-09  8:39                         ` Johannes Sixt
2019-02-09 16:55                           ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-09 23:29                           ` Jeff King
2019-02-10  9:40                             ` Johannes Sixt
2019-02-09 16:53                         ` Randall S. Becker

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