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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Windows: Fix intermittent failures of t7701
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:26:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3af3vnti.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498008BA.2000201@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:26:50 +0100")

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
>> I use this trick in my valgrind series:
>> 
>> 	($PROGRAM; echo $? > exit.code) | $OTHER_PROGRAM &&
>> 	test 0 = "$(cat exit.code)"
>
> Ah, using a file as temporary storage? Why not simply
>
> 	$PROGRAM > data &&
> 	$OTHER_PROGRAM < data
>
> Hm? ;)

Because too much cleverness often blinds clever minds.

Care to reroll with the simpler, dumber but clearer version?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-28  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 13:09 [PATCH] Windows: Fix intermittent failures of t7701 Johannes Sixt
2009-01-27 16:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-28  4:28   ` Jeff King
2009-01-28 12:43     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-28  7:26   ` Johannes Sixt
2009-01-28  8:26     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-01-28  9:52       ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Sixt

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