Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Small fixes for issues detected during internal CI runs
"Kyle Lippincott via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
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> I'm attempting to get the git test suite running automatically during our
> weekly import. I have this mostly working, including with Address Sanitizer
> and Memory Sanitizer, but ran into a few issues:
>
> * several tests were failing due to strbuf_getcwd not clearing errno on
> success after it internally looped due to the path being >128 bytes. This
> is resolved in depth; though either one of the commits alone would
> resolve our issues:
> * modify locations that call strtoX and check for ERANGE to set errno =
> 0; prior to calling the conversion function. This is the typical way
> that these functions are invoked, and may indicate that we want
> compatibility helpers in git-compat-util.h to ensure that this happens
> correctly (and add these functions to the banned list).
> * have strbuf_getcwd set errno = 0; prior to a successful exit. This
> isn't very common for most functions in the codebase, but some other
> examples of this were found.
> * t6421-merge-partial-clone.sh had >10% flakiness. This is due to our build
> system using paths that contain a 64-hex-char hash, which had a 12.5%
> chance of containing the substring d0.
>
> Kyle Lippincott (2):
> set errno=0 before strtoX calls
> t6421: fix test to work when repo dir contains d0
Both patches make perfect sense to me. Thanks.