Re: [PATCH v2] test-lib: limit the output of the yes utility

2016-02-03 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Hannes, On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Johannes Sixt wrote: > I'm not 100% satisfied with your version because it stomps on > short-and-sweet shell variables $i and $y. Please note that $y was already stomped on before my patch. > But then the utility only occurs upstream of a pipeline in a separate >

[PATCH v2] test-lib: limit the output of the yes utility

2016-02-02 Thread Johannes Sixt
From: Johannes Schindelin On Windows, there is no SIGPIPE. A consequence of this is that the upstream process of a pipe does not notice the death of the downstream process until the pipe buffer is full and writing more data returns an error. This behavior is the reason for an annoying delay durin