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Re: failure to append to .cvspass should always be fatal
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Mark D. Baushke |
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Re: failure to append to .cvspass should always be fatal |
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Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:23:10 -0800 |
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Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:
> > Hmmm... I wonder if it is possible to come up with a sanity.sh test case
> > for this one?
>
> I considered it but, dismissed it as infeasible.
> Of course, I would be happy to be proved wrong.
>
> It might work to use a tool like subterfugue, where you could presumably
> cause to fail the first write after the open-.cvspass-for-append.
> But if you try to fill the disk containing .cvspass so that there's
> enough room to rewrite that file, but not enough to append a few bytes
> more, it probably won't be reliable.
>
> I guess if you really insist, you might be able to do something
> reasonably portable with expect and gdb.
I don't think we need a test for it that urgently as yet.
-- Mark
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