Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] t5000: test tar files that overflow ustar headers

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 24, 2016, 16:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20160624164603.GA13789@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <576D621F.1030000@kdbg.org>

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 06:38:55PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Am 24.06.2016 um 01:20 schrieb Jeff King:
> > +# We expect git to die with SIGPIPE here (otherwise we
> > +# would generate the whole 64GB).
> > +test_expect_failure BUNZIP 'generate tar with huge size' '
> > +	{
> > +		git archive HEAD
> > +		echo $? >exit-code
> > +	} | head -c 4096 >huge.tar &&
> > +	echo 141 >expect &&
> > +	test_cmp expect exit-code
> 
> It's going to be 269 with ksh, and who-knows-what on Windows (due to lack of
> SIGPIPE - I haven't tested this, yet).

Thanks, I meant to ask about that. We do a workaround in t0005, but we _don't_ do it in the new sigpipe handling for test_must_fail. Is the latter just broken, too?

-Peff