Re: Is t7006-pager.sh racy?

> On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 07:03:49PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>
>> > What makes us expect that the "git log" invocation should trigger a
>> > SIGPIPE in the first place?
>> 
>> A misunderstanding, perhaps, because those 'git log' commands with
>> their early-exiting pagers rarely trigger SIGPIPE.
>
> I happened to be looking in this area today[1], and I think it turns out
> not to be "rarely", but rather "never" for some of the tests.
>
> The test in question sets the pager to "does-not-exist". But in that
> case we will realize immediately via run-command.c that we could not run
> the pager, and will not even redirect our stdout to it.
>
> For example, doing this:
>
>   GIT_PAGER=does-not-exist git -c alias.foo='!yes' -p foo
>
> will never get SIGPIPE; it will just write infinitely to the original
> stdout, and return success.
>
> Whereas this:
>
>   GIT_PAGER=false git -c alias.foo='!yes' -p foo
>
> will reliably get SIGPIPE. But even if we used it (with a while loop to
> instead of "yes" address the portability concern), the tests in t7006
> would still be wrong, because they are sending test-terminal's output to
> a closed pipe (so we'd still see SIGPIPE regardless of Git's behavior).
> They should be sending test_terminal's output to a file or /dev/null.
>
> It seems like this thread stalled. Ævar, were you planning to fix these
> tests?