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| -rw-r--r-- | t/README | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | t/test-lib.sh | 6 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -932,6 +932,15 @@ library for your script to use. test_oid_init or test_oid_cache. Providing an unknown key is an error. + - yes [<string>] + + This is often seen in modern UNIX but some platforms lack it, so + the test harness overrides the platform implementation with a + more limited one. Use this only when feeding a handful lines of + output to the downstream---unlike the real version, it generates + only up to 99 lines. + + Prerequisites ------------- diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh index 8665b0a9b6..4e79e140c9 100644 --- a/t/test-lib.sh +++ b/t/test-lib.sh @@ -1327,7 +1327,11 @@ then fi fi -# Provide an implementation of the 'yes' utility +# Provide an implementation of the 'yes' utility; the upper bound +# limit is there to help Windows that cannot stop this loop from +# wasting cycles when the downstream stops reading, so do not be +# tempted to turn it into an infinite loop. cf. 6129c930 ("test-lib: +# limit the output of the yes utility", 2016-02-02) yes () { if test $# = 0 then |