tests: don't use /dev/urandom for largefiles testing
There is no need to use entropy here just to create some content that only will
be used for hashing and ignored.
This avoids a problem where dd from /dev/urandom on solaris generates too short
output.
--- a/contrib/check-code.py Sun Apr 22 21:27:52 2012 -0400
+++ b/contrib/check-code.py Mon Apr 23 01:56:48 2012 +0200
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
(r'(\[|\btest\b).*-e ', "don't use 'test -e', use 'test -f'"),
(r'^alias\b.*=', "don't use alias, use a function"),
(r'if\s*!', "don't use '!' to negate exit status"),
+ (r'/dev/u?random', "don't use entropy, use /dev/zero"),
],
# warnings
[]
--- a/tests/test-largefiles.t Sun Apr 22 21:27:52 2012 -0400
+++ b/tests/test-largefiles.t Mon Apr 23 01:56:48 2012 +0200
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@
Test --normal flag
- $ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=2k count=11k > new-largefile 2> /dev/null
+ $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=2k count=11k > new-largefile 2> /dev/null
$ hg add --normal --large new-largefile
abort: --normal cannot be used with --large
[255]
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@
$ cd alice
$ hg init pubrepo
$ cd pubrepo
- $ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1k count=11k > a-large-file 2> /dev/null
+ $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=11k > a-large-file 2> /dev/null
$ hg add --large a-large-file
$ hg commit -m "Add a large file"
Invoking status precommit hook