Re: [Patch v1 1/3] test-lib-functions.sh: add generate_zero_bytes function

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2019, 01:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQwh8RxVLgbBXR2WtE+k-aFAWnr12nBcTPzccQp_gdEZw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190212003735.GH13301@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 7:37 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 09:05:04PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 1:59 PM <randall.s.becker@rogers.com> wrote:
> > > +generate_zero_bytes () {
> > > +       perl -e 'if ($ARGV[0] == "infinity") {
> >
> > s/perl/"$PERL_PATH"/
>
> This shouldn't be necessary. perl() is a function that uses $PERL_PATH
> (so you only need $PERL_PATH when you're writing out another script that
> doesn't run in the same process space as the rest of the test code).

Thanks for clarifying. I either didn't know or forgot about that.