Am 05.06.10 18:26, schrieb Zack Weinberg: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Thomas Keller <m...@thomaskeller.biz> wrote: >>> I assume you meant "/dev/nul instead of /dev/null" there? >> >> No, I meant /dev/nul - try GNU patch and tamper the patch file to >> "+++ /dev/nul" (which is of course wrong) - then you'll see that empty >> files are kept and are only removed explicitely with -E. This is what I >> mean - we'd tamper the test if we add -E, because then we just test GNU >> patch to correctly interpret the -E option, but not to automatically >> remove the file if it is empty _and_ has the target /dev/null. > > Oh, I see what you mean. Well, is the exact behavior of the system > 'patch' utility the focus of the test? I'm kinda inclined to doubt > it, but I have lost the message that says which test we're talking > about here...
The test is diff_patch_drop and IMHO it exactly tests the proper removal of the files at the end. If not we could / should probably just remove the last two checks. Thomas. -- GPG-Key 0x160D1092 | tommyd3...@jabber.ccc.de | http://thomaskeller.biz Please note that according to the EU law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange might be retained for a period of six months or longer: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?lang=en
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