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From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"'Eric Sunshine'" <sunshine@sunshineco.us>
Cc: "'Git List'" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Patch v1 2/3] t5318: replace use of /dev/zero with generate_zero_bytes
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:18:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004701d4c3c8$8a018d20$9e04a760$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh8d7d2ij.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano <jch2355@gmail.com> On Behalf Of Junio C Hamano
> Sent: February 13, 2019 12:25
> To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.us>
> Cc: randall.s.becker@rogers.com; Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>; Randall
S.
> Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> Subject: Re: [Patch v1 2/3] t5318: replace use of /dev/zero with
> generate_zero_bytes
> 
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 2:00 PM <randall.s.becker@rogers.com> wrote:
> >>> This change removes the dependency on /dev/zero with
> >>> generate_zero_bytes appending NUL values to blocks generating wrong
> signatures for test cases.
> >>
> >> This commit message says what the patch does but not _why_. At
> >> minimum, it should explain that /dev/zero is not available on all
> >> platforms, therefore, not portable, and (perhaps) cite NonStop as an
> >> example.
> >
> > Does sombody want to do the honors?  [PATCH 1/3] would become wasted
> > effort until that happens.  On the other hand, if this is not urgent
> > (it is only urgent for those without /dev/zero, and to others it may
> > be distraction/disruption this close to the final release to add
> > increased risk of fat finger mistakes), obviously I can wait.
> 
> So, before I lose the access to my primary screen (I was told that somehow
I
> need to reimage the workstation today X-<), here is what I have now.
> 
> -- >8 --
> From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 13:59:29 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] t5318: replace use of /dev/zero with generate_zero_bytes
> 
> There are platforms (e.g. NonStop) that lack /dev/zero; use the
> generate_zero_bytes helper we just introduced to append stream of NULs at
> the end of the file.
> 
> The original, even though it uses "dd seek=... count=..." to make it look
like it
> is overwriting the middle part of an existing file, has truncated the file
before
> this step with another use of "dd", which may make it tricky to see why
this
> rewrite is a correct one.

Here is how I interpret the test - might be wrong, but yanno...
The first dd copies something looking like reasonable data from the test
case.
The second dd copies zeros from seek to the end of a fixed size block.

My first attempt at a fix used truncate that extended the first to the
correct size (filling with zeros). My worry there is that I'm not sure there
is a guarantee of zeros, but that shouldn't matter for the test which just
wants a signature mismatch.

Others suggested using yes to fill in junk.

My second attempt was to create the generate_zero_bytes function to replace
exactly what the second dd was doing but not user /dev/zero. The fix was not
to change the conditions of the test - not debating the correctness of that
here - but to simply replicate the use of /dev/zero in context. So the
resulting file contains [reasonable-stuff]{seek}[0]{orig_size-seek}, which
is sufficient to satisfy the conditions of the test.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
>  t/t5318-commit-graph.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh index
> 16d10ebce8..d4bd1522fe 100755
> --- a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
> +++ b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
> @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ corrupt_graph_and_verify() {
>  	cp $objdir/info/commit-graph commit-graph-backup &&
>  	printf "$data" | dd of="$objdir/info/commit-graph" bs=1
> seek="$pos" conv=notrunc &&
>  	dd of="$objdir/info/commit-graph" bs=1 seek="$zero_pos" count=0
> &&
> -	dd if=/dev/zero of="$objdir/info/commit-graph" bs=1
> seek="$zero_pos" count=$(($orig_size - $zero_pos)) &&
> +	generate_zero_bytes $(($orig_size - $zero_pos))
> +>>"$objdir/info/commit-graph" &&
>  	test_must_fail git commit-graph verify 2>test_err &&
>  	grep -v "^+" test_err >err &&
>  	test_i18ngrep "$grepstr" err


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-09 18:59 [Patch v1 0/3] 2.21.0-rc0 test fixes resulting from use of /dev/zero randall.s.becker
2019-02-09 18:59 ` [Patch v1 1/3] test-lib-functions.sh: add generate_zero_bytes function randall.s.becker
2019-02-10  2:05   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-02-10 19:19     ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-12  0:37     ` Jeff King
2019-02-12  1:17       ` Eric Sunshine
2019-02-12  2:47         ` randall.s.becker
2019-02-09 18:59 ` [Patch v1 2/3] t5318: replace use of /dev/zero with generate_zero_bytes randall.s.becker
2019-02-10  2:07   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-02-12 17:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-13 17:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-13 18:18         ` Randall S. Becker [this message]
2019-02-13 21:00           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-13 21:03             ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-09 18:59 ` [Patch v1 3/3] t5562: replace /dev/zero with a pipe from generate_zero_bytes randall.s.becker
2019-02-10  2:12   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-02-12 17:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-12 20:50       ` Johannes Sixt
2019-02-13 17:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-15 16:42   ` [PATCH] t5562: do not depend on /dev/zero Max Kirillov
2019-02-15 17:13     ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-15 18:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-15 18:10         ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-15 18:45           ` Junio C Hamano

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