Re: the test suite fails

[Benno Schulenberg]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> > * expecting success: $compare out /dev/null
> > --- out 2007-05-16 14:47:00.000000000 +0000
> > +++ /dev/null   2005-05-14 16:37:31.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -1 +0,0 @@
> > -
> > \ No newline at end of file
> > * FAIL 3: expect no output
> >         $compare out /dev/null
>
> Can you see why that's failing?

# dd if=/dev/zero of=FILE bs=1M count=1 2>/dev/null
# parted -s FILE mklabel msdos >out 2>&1
# xxd out
0000000: 1b5b 3f31 3033 3468                      .[?1034h

# echo $LC_ALL
C
# echo $PROMPT_COMMAND | xxd
0000000: 0a                                       .

> > -Warning: The existing disk label on DEVICE will be destroyed
> > and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
> > +Warning: The existing disk label on DEVICE will be destroyed
> > and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? 
>
> The two preceding lines look identical to me, but diff found a
> difference. Is there a difference in the line-ending byte?

No, but the out line is preceded by that same "1b5b 3f31 3033 3468" 
sequence of bytes.  I have no idea where it's coming from.

# bash --version | head -1
GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
# parted --version | head -1
parted (GNU parted) 1.8.7
# grep Yes t0000-basic.sh | xxd
0000000: 5965 732f 4e6f 3f20 790a                 Yes/No? y.

Benno