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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 8, 2019, 16:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20190208165052.GC23461@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <000f01d4bf9e$a508eab0$ef1ac010$@nexbridge.com>

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

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> 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