[parted-devel] [PATCH] Avoid test failure with dash's builtin printf

[Jim Meyering]

FYI: I've just pushed this to fix a test failure
when using dash as /bin/sh.

 * tests/t0100-print.sh (msdos_magic): Use more-portable octal escapes,
 not hexadecimal ones.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net>
---
 tests/t0100-print.sh |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/t0100-print.sh b/tests/t0100-print.sh
index bc6a19b..edaa282 100755
--- a/tests/t0100-print.sh
+++ b/tests/t0100-print.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ test_description="the most basic 'print' test"

 dev=loop-file

-msdos_magic='\x55\xaa'
+# Using msdos_magic='\x55\xaa' looks nicer, but isn't portable.
+# dash's builtin printf doesn't recognize such \xHH hexadecimal escapes.
+msdos_magic='\125\252'

 # The extra 3KB+ zero bytes at the end are to avoid triggering a failure
 # on linux-2.6.8 that's probably related to opening with O_DIRECT.
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