Hi Peff,
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 01:05:51PM -0800, Josh Steadmon wrote: > > > On 2018.12.18 12:35, Jeff King wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:43:55AM -0800, Josh Steadmon wrote: > > > > > > > Add a new fuzz test for the commit graph and fix a buffer read-overflow > > > > that it discovered. Additionally, fix the Makefile instructions for > > > > building fuzzers. > > > > > > > > Changes since V3: > > > > * Improve portability of the new test functionality. > > > > > > I thought there was some question about /dev/zero, which I think is > > > in this version (I don't actually know whether there are portability > > > issues or not, but somebody did mention it). > > > > > > -Peff > > > > I've only found one reference [1] (from 1999) of OS X Server not having > > a /dev/zero. It appears to be present as of 2010 though [2]. > > Thanks for digging. That seems like enough to assume we should try it > and see if any macOS people complain. > > I do wonder if we'll run into problems on Windows, though. As long as we're talking about Unix shell scripts, /dev/zero should be fine, as we are essentially running in a variant of Cygwin. If you try to pass /dev/zero as an argument to a Git command, that's an entirely different thing: this most likely won't work. Ciao, Dscho
