Re: [gpsd-dev] Regression test failed on fortrex-201.log.chk

[Eric S. Raymond]

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> The line 154 is truncated in the check file and in the log file.

I just fixed that.

> 1.) Why does the truncated line pass the nmea0183 parser.

Because there's no check in the parser for the total number of sat records -
and probably cannot be, it varies too much across receivers.

> 2.) Why do you think, that the patch is not nessary, u-blox m8 receiver, i 
> use a navilock NL-8222MP do not report satellite positions without.

Probably because the M8 switches to ublox binary mode.

> 3.) Is it more important to support this broken checkfile then the output of 
> devices claiming to comform to nmea0183 version 4.1? 

No.  We should have a short-line test, but one isolated from the tests of
well-formed output on any particular device.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>