GNU bug report logs - #65156
29.1; Reading from pipe with --insert or insert-file-contents no longer supported

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Message #29 received at 65156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu,
 65156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mail <at> lucaswerkmeister.de
Subject: Re: bug#65156: 29.1; Reading from pipe with --insert or
 insert-file-contents no longer supported
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:00:26 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 10:29:12 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>  Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
>  Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
>  65156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  mail <at> lucaswerkmeister.de
> 
> 9 aug. 2023 kl. 10.15 skrev Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>:
> 
> > Right, but that's a problem with the test: /dev/urandom is seekable
> > under the Linux kernel.  I fixed this on master by checking for a
> > regular file instead of a seekable file when verifying BEG, but that's
> > too extensive a change for Emacs 29.
> 
> Thank you. We cannot have tests that keep failing, so I disabled it on emacs-29.

Thanks, but that wasn't TRT in this case.  That test is useful, and
moreover, tests a feature introduced in Emacs 29.  One of the
sub-tests fails, so I just commented it out for now, and re-enabled
the test as a whole.

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