RE: [PATCH] t5562: do not depend on /dev/zero

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

On February 15, 2019 11:43, Max Kirillov wrote:
> It was reported [1] that NonStop platform does not have /dev/zero.
> 
> The test uses /dev/zero as a dummy input. Passing case (http-backed failed
> because of too big input size) should not be reading anything from it. If
http-
> backend would erroneously try to read any data returning EOF probably
> would be even safer than providing some meaningless data.
> 
> Replace /dev/zero with /dev/null to avoid issues with platforms which do
not
> have /dev/zero.
> 
> [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20190209185930.5256-4-
> randall.s.becker@rogers.com/
> 
> Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
> ---
> By the way, I don't think this requires such sofisticated fix. In the
success
> case the input would not be read at all.
> You could replace it with /dev/null, the in failure (not immediate fail)
git
> would fail due to truncated input or something.
> 
> Also, as you experience hang issue [2] in earlier tests, this one should
not
> have contributed to it.
> 
> [2] https://public-
> inbox.org/git/001901d4c22b$194bfe60$4be3fb20$@nexbridge.com/
>  t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh
b/t/t5562-http-backend-
> content-length.sh
> index 90d890d02f..436c261c86 100755
> --- a/t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh
> +++ b/t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ test_expect_success 'CONTENT_LENGTH overflow
> ssite_t' '
>  		GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL=TRUE \
>  		REQUEST_METHOD=POST \
>  		CONTENT_LENGTH="$NOT_FIT_IN_SSIZE" \
> -		git http-backend </dev/zero >/dev/null 2>err &&
> +		git http-backend </dev/null >/dev/null 2>err &&
>  	grep "fatal:.*CONTENT_LENGTH" err

FTR, this particular subtest is not the one that is hanging. This subtest
passes on NonStop with any and all (now) 4 solutions that have been floating
around.

Cheers,
Randall