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t4153: stop redirecting input from /dev/zero
Commit 852a171 (am: let command-line options override saved options, 2015-08-04) redirected a few "git am" invocations from /dev/zero, even though it did not expect "am" to read the input. This was necessary at the time because those tests used test_terminal, and as described in 18d8c26 (test_terminal: redirect child process' stdin to a pty, 2015-08-04): Note that due to the way the code is structured, the child's stdin pseudo-tty will be closed when we finish reading from our stdin. This means that in the common case, where our stdin is attached to /dev/null, the child's stdin pseudo-tty will be closed immediately. Some operations like isatty(), which git-am uses, require the file descriptor to be open, and hence if the success of the command depends on such functions, test_terminal's stdin should be redirected to a source with large amount of data to ensure that the child's stdin is not closed, e.g. test_terminal git am --3way </dev/zero But we later dropped the use of test_terminal in 53ce2e3 (am: add explicit "--retry" option, 2024-06-06). That commit dropped one of the redirections from /dev/zero but not the other. In theory the remaining one should not cause any problems, but it turns out that at least one platform (NonStop) does not have /dev/zero at all. We never noticed before because it also did not pass the TTY prereq, meaning these tests were not run at all there until 53ce2e3. So let's drop the useless /dev/zero mention. There are others in the test suite, but they are run only for tests marked with EXPENSIVE (so not typically by default). Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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