From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 20:11:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Add commit-graph fuzzer and fix buffer overflow
Message-ID: <20181220201145.GA11002@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1812202034390.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 08:35:57PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > I do wonder if we'll run into problems on Windows, though.
> 
> As long as we're talking about Unix shell scripts, /dev/zero should be
> fine, as we are essentially running in a variant of Cygwin.
> 
> If you try to pass /dev/zero as an argument to a Git command, that's an
> entirely different thing: this most likely won't work.

Thanks for confirming. We're talking about passing it to dd here, so I
think it should be OK.

-Peff