Hi Junio, On Thu, 14 Feb 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgad...@gmail.com> > writes: > > > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> > > > > In cc95bc2025 (t5562: replace /dev/zero with a pipe from > > generate_zero_bytes, 2019-02-09), we replaced usage of /dev/zero (which > > is not available on NonStop, apparently) by a Perl script snippet to > > generate NUL bytes. > > > > Sadly, it does not seem to work on NonStop, as t5562 reportedly hangs. > > ... > > In the end, though, what counts is that this here change incidentally > > fixes that hang (maybe also on NonStop?). Even more positively, it gets > > rid of yet another unnecessary Perl invocation. > > Thanks for a quick band-aid. > > Will apply directly to 'master' so that we won't forget before -rc2. Thank you, that will be good, as the builds still seem to fail. All of them. > In the meantime, perhaps somebody who knows Perl interpreter's > quirks well can tell us what's different between the obvious and > simple C program and an equivalent in Perl to convince us why this > is a good solution to the problem. I would be *really* curious about that, too. Ciao, Dscho
