From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:18:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop)
Message-ID: <20190208221835.GH11927@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <005901d4bffb$6d0c34c0$47249e40$@nexbridge.com>

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 05:12:43PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> I'm happy to modify the test (it is in one spot), to make a decision based on:
> a) whether /dev/zero exists
> b) whether the system is a NonStop
> c) something else
> 
> What would you all prefer? It doesn't matter to me one way or another, as long as I can get the dependency to /dev/zero removed so tests will run here.

My preference is that we wrap the yes/tr invocation into a function
(maybe "infinite_nul") and use that where we currently require
/dev/zero.
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