Re: [PATCH v2] compat: Fix read() of 2GB and more on Mac OS X

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Aug 19, 2013, 08:27 UTC
Message-ID: <5211D6DC.5090704@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <1376894300-28929-1-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

Am 19.08.2013 08:38, schrieb Steffen Prohaska:

> Note that 'git add' exits with 0 even if it prints filtering errors to
> stderr.  The test, therefore, checks stderr.  'git add' should probably
> be changed (sometime in another commit) to exit with nonzero if
> filtering fails.  The test could then be changed to use test_must_fail.

Thanks for this hint. I was not aware of this behavior.

Of course, we do *not* want to use test_must_fail because git add generally must not fail for files with more than 2GB. (Architectures with a 32bit size_t are a different matter, of course.)

-- Hannes

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