linux-kernel - Re: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0

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Message-ID: <20190209042456.GB18286@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 23:24:56 -0500
From:   Jeff King <peff@...f.net>
To:     "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@...bridge.com>
Cc:     "'brian m. carlson'" <sandals@...stytoothpaste.net>,
        'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@...ox.com>, git@...r.kernel.org,
        'Linux Kernel' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        git-packagers@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop)

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 05:53:53PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:

> > diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh index
> > 92cf8f812c..4afab14431 100644
> > --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> > +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> > @@ -1302,3 +1302,8 @@ test_set_port () {
> >  	port=$(($port + ${GIT_TEST_STRESS_JOB_NR:-0}))
> >  	eval $var=$port
> >  }
> > +
> > +# Generate an output of $1 bytes of all zeroes (NULs, not ASCII zeroes).
> > +gen_zero_bytes () {
> > +	perl -e 'print "\0" x $ARGV[0]' "$@"
> > +}
> 
> This function does work on platform, so it's good.

Great. Since it sounds like you're preparing some patches to deal with
/dev/zero elsewhere, do you want to wrap it up in a patch as part of
that?

-Peff