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[PATCH] test: fix for COLUMNS and bash 5

From: Felipe Contreras <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-05 19:48:33
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Since c49a177bec (test-lib.sh: set COLUMNS=80 for --verbose
repeatability, 2021-06-29) multiple tests have been failing when using
bash 5 because checkwinsize is enabled by default, therefore COLUMNS is
reset using TIOCGWINSZ even for non-interactive shells.

It's debatable whether or not bash should even be doing that, but for
now we can avoid this undesirable behavior by disabling this option.

Reported-by: Fabian Stelzer <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <redacted>
---
 t/test-lib.sh | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index db61081d6b..a2b7dfecee 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -419,6 +419,12 @@ COLUMNS=80
 export LANG LC_ALL PAGER TZ COLUMNS
 EDITOR=:
 
+# Since bash 5.0, checkwinsize is enabled by default which does update the
+# COLUMNS variable every time a command completes, even for non-interactive
+# shells.
+# Disable that since we are aiming for reproducibility.
+test -n "$BASH_VERSION" && shopt -u checkwinsize 2>/dev/null
+
 # A call to "unset" with no arguments causes at least Solaris 10
 # /usr/xpg4/bin/sh and /bin/ksh to bail out.  So keep the unsets
 # deriving from the command substitution clustered with the other
-- 
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