Re: git-svn failure when symlink added in svn

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Seth Falcon [off-list ref] writes:

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On OS X, I get:

    ziti:~/temp seth$ ./perltest1.pl 
    read[5]: link 
    child says: child: at 5

Ah, so the previous read($fh, $buf, 5) lets stdio absorb the
whole (short) input, and the underlying seek pointer is not
adjusted back across fork, and the child does not have anything
to read.

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And uncommenting the sysseek call, I get:

    ziti:~/temp seth$ ./perltest1.pl 
    read[5]: link 
    child says: child: at 5
    child says: >>12345

Then I suspect the following could be less invasive and more
efficient fix for the problem.  I do not have an access to MacOS
box, and I do not have a working sync with any SVN repository,
so I cannot test it myself, though...

This also works as a fix for me on OS X and obviously is nicer than
resorting to temp files.  Again, with this patch against git master
the test case that Eric posted passes as does one of my own examples.

+ seth