Re: [PATCH 1/3] t0301: fixes for windows compatibility

From: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 13, 2021, 07:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPUEspi1NzM34whXOT8T7NgJ1SCBGTPETcF0MY-UHz+kRqCTZQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0606160d-1192-2074-b1ad-9c5d86c953d5@gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 10:34 PM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 13/09/21 03.28, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:
> > test -S is not able to detect that a file is a socket, so use
> > test -f instead.
>
> Isn't test -f just check for socket as regular file?

and that is exactly how they look; ironically a -f check in Linux fails for sockets so maybe better to do -e?

an empty file with nothing that indicates in Windows Explorer or a stat call (from WSL or git bash), that they are anything else.

Carlo

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