El mar, 3 dic 2024 a las 11:26, Samuel Thibault
(<[email protected]>) escribió:
>
> Diego Nieto Cid, le mar. 03 déc. 2024 11:10:57 -0300, a ecrit:
> > which produce the following piece of logs:
> >
> > $ cat tests/tmplog
> > + '[' -z '' ']'
> > + ../programs/zstd tmp -f -o /dev/random
> > zstd: /dev/random: Permission denied
>
> Eh? Why writing to random? What sense is this supposed to have for
> non-root?
It's testing that a non regular file doesn't fail and rather continues
silently. Not sure why the wouldn't want to error out in such cases
:shrug:
The device node is picked earlier in the test script [1]:
INTOVOID="/dev/null"
case "$UNAME" in
GNU) DEVDEVICE="/dev/random" ;;
*) DEVDEVICE="/dev/zero" ;;
esac
>
> And what is surprising is: does it actually work on hurd-i386?
>
Yes, there's a patch to skip de failing tests on hurd-i386 [2]
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[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/tests/playTests.sh#L112
[2]
https://sources.debian.org/patches/libzstd/1.5.6%2Bdfsg-1/0015-Skip-dev-random-tests-on-hurd.patch/
