We do not have /dev/zero on Windows. This replaces it by data generated
with printf, perl, or echo. Most of the cases do not depend on that the
data is a stream of zero bytes, so we use something printable; nor is an
unlimited stream of data needed, so we produce only as many bytes as the
test cases need.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
printf "\x01" is bad; write printf "\001" for portability.
Testing with dash is a good way to find this kind of POSIX.1 violation
breakages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The perldiag(1) has following to say about this:
"Can't do inplace edit without backup"
(F) You're on a system such as MS-DOS that gets confused if
you try reading from a deleted (but still opened) file. You
have to say -i.bak, or some such.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
