Re: Suppressing occasional failures in copy2 regression test

From: tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de
To: Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Suppressing occasional failures in copy2 regression test
Date: 2009-06-22 05:09:54
Message-ID: 20090622050954.GA28762@tomas
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:16:05AM +0530, Gurjeet Singh wrote:

[...]

> [...] But it sure cost me a few cycles to
> realize that the files I copied from my Windows host to my Fedora VM were
> just not the thing perl would like.

Had it been a Windows-ish perl, it would have worked. Chomp uses
whatever the current value of "line separator" (or "input record separator", to be
more precise) is (that's $/). Under Unix it's just "\n".

Alas, $/ can't be a regular expression. The canonical way to deal with
that can be seen e.g. here[1].

[1] <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlport.html#Newlines>

Regards
- -- tomás
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