RE: [Fix v2] t5562: remove dependency on /dev/zero

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On February 9, 2019 13:25, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> 
> > How many bytes are needed here? yes() in test-lib.sh generates only 99
> > 'y', if I am not mistaken.
> 
> I think we will not use "yes" in the end for this topic, which makes this
> comment totally irrelevant to the thread, but I wonder why we have the
limit
> of 99 there?  It cannot be "we do not want to worry about sigpipe"
affecting
> the end result of the test (after all the reader may stop reading from
after
> reading just one, and the status of the upstream process that would die
with
> sigpipe is lost anyway).
> 
> It turns out it is about sigpipe ;-) but in somewhat a different way.  To
> prevent others from wasting their time wondering about this, probably we
> want to have something like the attached?
> 
>  t/README      | 9 +++++++++
>  t/test-lib.sh | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
> index 1326fd7505..f4e1a82657 100644
> --- a/t/README
> +++ b/t/README
> @@ -927,6 +927,15 @@ library for your script to use.
>     test_oid_init or test_oid_cache.  Providing an unknown key is an
>     error.
> 
> + - yes [<string>]
> +
> +   This is often seen in modern UNIX but some platforms lack it, so
> +   the test harness overrides the platform implementation with a
> +   more limited one.  Use this only when feeding a handful lines of
> +   output to the downstream---unlike the real version, it generates
> +   only up to 99 lines.
> +
> +
>  Prerequisites
>  -------------
> 
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh index 42b1a0aa7f..541a37f4c0
100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -1313,7 +1313,11 @@ then
>  	fi
>  fi
> 
> -# Provide an implementation of the 'yes' utility
> +# Provide an implementation of the 'yes' utility; the upper bound #
> +limit is there to help Windows that cannot stop this loop from #
> +wasting cycles when the downstream stops reading, so do not be #
> +tempted to turn it into an infinite loop. cf. 6129c930 ("test-lib:
> +# limit the output of the yes utility", 2016-02-02)
>  yes () {
>  	if test $# = 0
>  	then

Sadly, I already the other path ready, but did not have a chance to send it.
I'm ok either way as long as I can get the tests running.

Regards,
Randall