bug#8074: Fix sparse-pipe test on 2.6.26 kernel

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pádraig Brady" <address@hidden>
To: "Gilles Espinasse" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Jim Meyering" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:54 AM
Subject: bug#8074: Fix sparse-pipe test on 2.6.26 kernel


...
> >
> > If I add a dd if=/dev/null of=pipe conv=notrunc,fdatasync, test
reliabily
> > work too.
> > So I added that in attached patch.
>
> Good testing!
> Interesting to see that fdatasync flushes the pipe to disk.
> However it might be more portable/robust to use `wait`
> rather than that dd command?
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
>
wait work fine
Find v2 attached

Gilles

v2-Fix-unreliable-sparse-to-pipe-test-on-cmp-on-debian-2.6.26.patch
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