Re: [PATCH] test-lib: limit the output of the yes utility

2016-02-02 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Hannes, On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Johannes Sixt wrote: > On Windows, there is no SIGPIPE. True. But we do get some sort of write failure, no? Otherwise https://github.com/git/git/commit/2b86292ed would not work... > diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh > index bd4b02e..97e6491 100644 > ---

[PATCH] test-lib: limit the output of the yes utility

2016-02-01 Thread Johannes Sixt
On Windows, there is no SIGPIPE. A consequence of this is that the upstream process of a pipe does not notice the death of the downstream process until the pipe buffer is full and writing more data returns an error. This behavior is the reason for an annoying delay during the execution of