Re: git-svn failure when symlink added in svn

[Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Is it really the redirection that is the problem?
>
> The process seeks $fh back to the beginning, reads 5 bytes from
> it (to ensure that is 'link '), and then forks to feed $fh to
> git-hash-object.
>
> Now what do you really want to hash here?  I do not know what
> this "file that begins with 'link '" magic is about, but I
> suspect that the child may or may not start reading from byte
> offset 5 of that file, depending on how the low-level I/O is
> tied to Perl.
>
> Here is a little test script to imitate what the part in
> close_file sub is doing.  What does it output on MacOS (or
> whatever systems that are having the same problem)?
>
> On a Linux box, it appears that it reads the remainder of the
> file and the test script says "child says: >>12345", so I am
> assuming that is what close_file sub wants to do.  If my
> suspicion is correct, you would get "child says: >>link 12345",
> in which case sysseek() commented out below would help,
> perhaps.

On OS X, I get:

    ziti:~/temp seth$ ./perltest1.pl 
    read[5]: link 
    child says: child: at 5

And uncommenting the sysseek call, I get:

    ziti:~/temp seth$ ./perltest1.pl 
    read[5]: link 
    child says: child: at 5
    child says: >>12345

+ seth