Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 6/7] Exit with an error when diffs retcode=2 (error) on patch

[Martin Quinson]

Hello,

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:11:47PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> Hmm. We incorrectly assumed that portability of this construct wasn't an
> issue because we were using bash. We aren't. The tester is written in
> perl, and except for a few special cases, it blindly execs the commands
> in the test cases. So we get /usr/bin/printf called here, not bash's
> printf.
>
> I am using GNU coreutils 8.12 and 8.21 on my machine. I suppose you are
> using something else on your system.

Nope, I'm the same. But /bin/sh is an alias to dash here. That might
be why, as the runner script seems to use /bin/sh to start the
commands that need a shell (such as the ones with a redirection).

> $ bash -c "printf '\\x02\\x00\\x01'" > test.bin
> 
> Performance-wise it's suboptimal but I suppose we don't really care.

I did that, and it works. Yeah, the performance drop is not noticable
on this test file ;)

The new patch should be ready now. Stay tuned.

Bye, Mt.

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