view tests/test-contrib.t @ 42562:97ada9b8d51b stable 5.0.2

posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode

Python 3 already does this, so skip it there.

Consider the program:

   #include <stdio.h>

   int main() {
     FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w");
     fprintf(f, "narf\n");
     fclose(f);

     f = fopen("narf", "a");
     printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
     fprintf(f, "troz\n");
     printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));

     return 0;
   }

on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints

   5
   10

but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints

   0
   10

By my reading of
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html
this is technically correct, specifically:

> Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the
> mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be
> forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
> calls to fseek().

in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode
files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we
perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally
after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable,
but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing
to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does
for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.

Set vars:

  $ CONTRIBDIR="$TESTDIR/../contrib"

Test simplemerge command:

  $ cp "$CONTRIBDIR/simplemerge" .
  $ echo base > base
  $ echo local > local
  $ cat base >> local
  $ cp local orig
  $ cat base > other
  $ echo other >> other

changing local directly

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge local base other && echo "merge succeeded"
  merge succeeded
  $ cat local
  local
  base
  other
  $ cp orig local

printing to stdout

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p local base other
  local
  base
  other

local:

  $ cat local
  local
  base

conflicts

  $ cp base conflict-local
  $ cp other conflict-other
  $ echo not other >> conflict-local
  $ echo end >> conflict-local
  $ echo end >> conflict-other

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< conflict-local
  not other
  =======
  other
  >>>>>>> conflict-other
  end
  [1]

1 label

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p -L foo conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  =======
  other
  >>>>>>> conflict-other
  end
  [1]

2 labels

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  =======
  other
  >>>>>>> bar
  end
  [1]

3 labels

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar -L base conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  end
  ||||||| base
  =======
  other
  end
  >>>>>>> bar
  [1]

too many labels

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar -L baz -L buz conflict-local base conflict-other
  abort: can only specify three labels.
  [255]

binary file

  $ "$PYTHON" -c "f = open('binary-local', 'w'); f.write('\x00'); f.close()"
  $ cat orig >> binary-local
  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p binary-local base other
  warning: binary-local looks like a binary file.
  [1]

binary file --text

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -a -p binary-local base other 2>&1
  warning: binary-local looks like a binary file.
  \x00local (esc)
  base
  other

help

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge --help
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output

wrong number of arguments

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge
  simplemerge: wrong number of arguments
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output
  [1]

bad option

  $ "$PYTHON" simplemerge --foo -p local base other
  simplemerge: option --foo not recognized
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output
  [1]