Re: [Monotone-devel] Bug/patch: automate stdio

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:05:02PM -0600, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:40 +0100, Christian Ohler wrote:
> > There's a pretty serious bug in automate stdio in mtn 0.31 and mainline. 
> >   Under certain circumstances, mtn gets confused reading its input and 
> > processes a command that is different from what was sent on stdin.
> > 
> > I believe the attached (one-line) patch fixes this.  Unfortunately, I 
> > see no easy way for me to provide a test case for this.
> 
> Patch applied, thanks. And yeah, it'd be a bit of a pain to write a test
> for.

I suppose we'd have to write some sort of mock iostream, that fed us
bytes with random blocksizes?  I think I've seen this done (in the
twisted testsuite), but ugh...

-- Nathaniel

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