RE: [Patch v1 1/3] test-lib-functions.sh: add generate_zero_bytes function

From: randall.s.becker@rogers.com <randall.s.becker@rogers.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2019, 02:47 UTC
Message-ID: <001201d4c27d$4980b7e0$dc8227a0$@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQwh8RxVLgbBXR2WtE+k-aFAWnr12nBcTPzccQp_gdEZw@mail.gmail.com>

On February 11, 2019 20:18, Eric Sunshine wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 7:37 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 09:05:04PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 1:59 PM <randall.s.becker@rogers.com> wrote:
> > > > +generate_zero_bytes () {
> > > > +       perl -e 'if ($ARGV[0] == "infinity") {
> > >
> > > s/perl/"$PERL_PATH"/
> >
> > This shouldn't be necessary. perl() is a function that uses $PERL_PATH
> > (so you only need $PERL_PATH when you're writing out another script
> > that doesn't run in the same process space as the rest of the test code).
> 
> Thanks for clarifying. I either didn't know or forgot about that.

As did I, thank you.