Re: [PATCH v2] test-lib: limit the output of the yes utility

Hi Hannes, On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Johannes Sixt wrote: > I'm not 100% satisfied with your version because it stomps on > short-and-sweet shell variables $i and $y. Please note that $y was already stomped on before my patch. > But then the utility only occurs upstream of a pipeline in a separate >

[PATCH v2] test-lib: limit the output of the yes utility

From: Johannes Schindelin 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