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

[Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>]

Am 08.02.19 um 23:07 schrieb randall.s.becker@rogers.com:
> From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> 
> Replaced subtest 15 (CONTENT_LENGTH overflow ssite_t) use of /dev/zero
> with yes and a translation of its result to a stream of NULL. This is
> a more portable solution.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> ---
>  t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh b/t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh
> index 90d890d02..b8d1913e5 100755
> --- a/t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh
> +++ b/t/t5562-http-backend-content-length.sh
> @@ -143,14 +143,14 @@ test_expect_success GZIP 'push gzipped empty' '
>  
>  test_expect_success 'CONTENT_LENGTH overflow ssite_t' '
>  	NOT_FIT_IN_SSIZE=$(ssize_b100dots) &&
> -	env \
> +	yes | tr "y" "\\0" | env \
>  		CONTENT_TYPE=application/x-git-upload-pack-request \
>  		QUERY_STRING=/repo.git/git-upload-pack \
>  		PATH_TRANSLATED="$PWD"/.git/git-upload-pack \
>  		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 2>err &&
>  	grep "fatal:.*CONTENT_LENGTH" err
>  '

How many bytes are needed here? yes() in test-lib.sh generates only 99
'y', if I am not mistaken.

-- Hannes