From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:38:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] t5000: test tar files that overflow ustar headers
Message-ID: <576D621F.1030000@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160623232041.GA3668@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 24.06.2016 um 01:20 schrieb Jeff King:
> +# We expect git to die with SIGPIPE here (otherwise we
> +# would generate the whole 64GB).
> +test_expect_failure BUNZIP 'generate tar with huge size' '
> +	{
> +		git archive HEAD
> +		echo $? >exit-code
> +	} | head -c 4096 >huge.tar &&
> +	echo 141 >expect &&
> +	test_cmp expect exit-code

It's going to be 269 with ksh, and who-knows-what on Windows (due to 
lack of SIGPIPE - I haven't tested this, yet).

-- Hannes