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commit 35a0badbd61faf0d1f2992e2fe7c08d9ab136d32
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 9 18:36:28 2026 -0600
HACKING: Clarify scope of portability challenge.
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HACKING | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 2dc7868e0..5bb6d683c 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Here is some advice on writing portable automated test
scripts.
So a regex like this that works with GNU od:
grep -q '81 30 55 81 30 56 81 6c e2'
- might need to be weakened to the following to work on macOS.
+ might need to be weakened to the following to work on macOS/[NO]*BSD.
grep -q '81 *30 *55 *81 *30 *56 *81 *6c *e2'
* The "od" command on macOS does not respect the environment variable
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