Re: [PATCH] opening files in remote.c should ensure it is opening a file

["H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:30:39 -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> > Most bizarre workaround found for clone (the first 4 failures):
> > --8<---
> > diff -pur /a5/pro/3gl/LINUX/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh git-clone.sh
> > --- a/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh  2008-02-02 05:09:01 +0100
> > +++ b/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh  2008-02-18 10:03:26 +0100
> > @@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ yes)
> >                 '') git-fetch-pack --all -k $quiet $depth $no_progress "$repo";;
> >                 *) git-fetch-pack --all -k $quiet "$upload_pack" $depth $no_progress "$repo" ;;
> >                 esac >"$GIT_DIR/CLONE_HEAD" ||
> > -                       die "fetch-pack from '$repo' failed."
> > +                       exit 1
> > +                       # die "fetch-pack from '$repo' failed."
> >                 ;;
> >         esac
> >         ;;
> 
> That sounds *very* broken.

Indeed, and trying to see if eval or exiting from with a sub caused
this weird behaviour, I failed to come up with a simple test script
to prove this.

> Is your /bin/sh really a variant of Bourne?

Yes

 NAME
      sh - overview of various system shells

 SYNOPSIS
    POSIX Shell:
      sh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ...  [-c string] [arg ...]

      rsh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ...  [-c string] [arg ...]

    Korn Shell:
      ksh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ...  [-c string] [arg ...]

      rksh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ...  [-c string] [arg ...]

    C Shell:
      csh [-cefinstvxTVX] [command_file] [argument_list ...]

    Key Shell:
      keysh

> If HP-UX is broken in a similar way as Solaris is, in that it
> installs a non-POSIX shell under /bin/sh and offers a Korn in
> /bin/ksh, "make SHELL_PATH=/bin/ksh" may help.

$ path -al sh ksh
  27231 100555 -r-x    2      bin    586136  27 Aug 2004 03:36 /usr/bin/sh
   1744 100555 -r-x    1      bin   1219780  27 Aug 2004 03:36 /sbin/sh
   3206 100555 -r-x    2      bin    446904  27 Aug 2004 03:20 /usr/bin/ksh

And running all with ksh only makes things worse!

$ cat t0000-basic.sh.err
t0000-basic.sh[31]: !:  not found
test_expect_success[31]: !:  not found
test_expect_success[31]: !:  not found
test_expect_failure[31]: !:  not found
test_expect_success[31]: !:  not found
test_expect_success[31]: !:  not found
test_expect_success[31]: !:  not found
test_expect_failure[31]: !:  not found
:
:



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& 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin.       http://qa.perl.org
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