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1 # Library of functions shared by all tests scripts, included by
2 # test-lib.sh.
4 # Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano
6 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 # the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
9 # (at your option) any later version.
11 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 # GNU General Public License for more details.
16 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 # along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .
19 # The semantics of the editor variables are that of invoking
20 # sh -c "$EDITOR \"$@\"" files ...
22 # If our trash directory contains shell metacharacters, they will be
23 # interpreted if we just set $EDITOR directly, so do a little dance with
24 # environment variables to work around this.
26 # In particular, quoting isn't enough, as the path may contain the same quote
27 # that we're using.
28 test_set_editor () {
29 FAKE_EDITOR="$1"
30 export FAKE_EDITOR
31 EDITOR='"$FAKE_EDITOR"'
32 export EDITOR
35 test_set_index_version () {
36 GIT_INDEX_VERSION="$1"
37 export GIT_INDEX_VERSION
40 test_decode_color () {
41 awk '
42 function name(n) {
43 if (n == 0) return "RESET";
44 if (n == 1) return "BOLD";
45 if (n == 30) return "BLACK";
46 if (n == 31) return "RED";
47 if (n == 32) return "GREEN";
48 if (n == 33) return "YELLOW";
49 if (n == 34) return "BLUE";
50 if (n == 35) return "MAGENTA";
51 if (n == 36) return "CYAN";
52 if (n == 37) return "WHITE";
53 if (n == 40) return "BLACK";
54 if (n == 41) return "BRED";
55 if (n == 42) return "BGREEN";
56 if (n == 43) return "BYELLOW";
57 if (n == 44) return "BBLUE";
58 if (n == 45) return "BMAGENTA";
59 if (n == 46) return "BCYAN";
60 if (n == 47) return "BWHITE";
63 while (match($0, /\033\[[0-9;]*m/) != 0) {
64 printf "%s<", substr($0, 1, RSTART-1);
65 codes = substr($0, RSTART+2, RLENGTH-3);
66 if (length(codes) == 0)
67 printf "%s", name(0)
68 else {
69 n = split(codes, ary, ";");
70 sep = "";
71 for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
72 printf "%s%s", sep, name(ary[i]);
73 sep = ";"
76 printf ">";
77 $0 = substr($0, RSTART + RLENGTH, length($0) - RSTART - RLENGTH + 1);
79 print
84 nul_to_q () {
85 perl -pe 'y/\000/Q/'
88 q_to_nul () {
89 perl -pe 'y/Q/\000/'
92 q_to_cr () {
93 tr Q '\015'
96 q_to_tab () {
97 tr Q '\011'
100 qz_to_tab_space () {
101 tr QZ '\011\040'
104 append_cr () {
105 sed -e 's/$/Q/' | tr Q '\015'
108 remove_cr () {
109 tr '\015' Q | sed -e 's/Q$//'
112 # In some bourne shell implementations, the "unset" builtin returns
113 # nonzero status when a variable to be unset was not set in the first
114 # place.
116 # Use sane_unset when that should not be considered an error.
118 sane_unset () {
119 unset "$@"
120 return 0
123 test_tick () {
124 if test -z "${test_tick+set}"
125 then
126 test_tick=1112911993
127 else
128 test_tick=$(($test_tick + 60))
130 GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$test_tick -0700"
131 GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$test_tick -0700"
132 export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
135 # Stop execution and start a shell. This is useful for debugging tests and
136 # only makes sense together with "-v".
138 # Be sure to remove all invocations of this command before submitting.
140 test_pause () {
141 if test "$verbose" = t; then
142 "$SHELL_PATH" <&6 >&3 2>&4
143 else
144 error >&5 "test_pause requires --verbose"
148 # Call test_commit with the arguments "<message> [<file> [<contents> [<tag>]]]"
150 # This will commit a file with the given contents and the given commit
151 # message, and tag the resulting commit with the given tag name.
153 # <file>, <contents>, and <tag> all default to <message>.
155 test_commit () {
156 notick= &&
157 signoff= &&
158 while test $# != 0
160 case "$1" in
161 --notick)
162 notick=yes
164 --signoff)
165 signoff="$1"
168 break
170 esac
171 shift
172 done &&
173 file=${2:-"$1.t"} &&
174 echo "${3-$1}" > "$file" &&
175 git add "$file" &&
176 if test -z "$notick"
177 then
178 test_tick
179 fi &&
180 git commit $signoff -m "$1" &&
181 git tag "${4:-$1}"
184 # Call test_merge with the arguments "<message> <commit>", where <commit>
185 # can be a tag pointing to the commit-to-merge.
187 test_merge () {
188 test_tick &&
189 git merge -m "$1" "$2" &&
190 git tag "$1"
193 # This function helps systems where core.filemode=false is set.
194 # Use it instead of plain 'chmod +x' to set or unset the executable bit
195 # of a file in the working directory and add it to the index.
197 test_chmod () {
198 chmod "$@" &&
199 git update-index --add "--chmod=$@"
202 # Unset a configuration variable, but don't fail if it doesn't exist.
203 test_unconfig () {
204 git config --unset-all "$@"
205 config_status=$?
206 case "$config_status" in
207 5) # ok, nothing to unset
208 config_status=0
210 esac
211 return $config_status
214 # Set git config, automatically unsetting it after the test is over.
215 test_config () {
216 test_when_finished "test_unconfig '$1'" &&
217 git config "$@"
220 test_config_global () {
221 test_when_finished "test_unconfig --global '$1'" &&
222 git config --global "$@"
225 write_script () {
227 echo "#!${2-"$SHELL_PATH"}" &&
229 } >"$1" &&
230 chmod +x "$1"
233 # Use test_set_prereq to tell that a particular prerequisite is available.
234 # The prerequisite can later be checked for in two ways:
236 # - Explicitly using test_have_prereq.
238 # - Implicitly by specifying the prerequisite tag in the calls to
239 # test_expect_{success,failure,code}.
241 # The single parameter is the prerequisite tag (a simple word, in all
242 # capital letters by convention).
244 test_set_prereq () {
245 satisfied_prereq="$satisfied_prereq$1 "
247 satisfied_prereq=" "
248 lazily_testable_prereq= lazily_tested_prereq=
250 # Usage: test_lazy_prereq PREREQ 'script'
251 test_lazy_prereq () {
252 lazily_testable_prereq="$lazily_testable_prereq$1 "
253 eval test_prereq_lazily_$1=\$2
256 test_run_lazy_prereq_ () {
257 script='
258 mkdir -p "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" &&
260 cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" &&'"$2"'
262 say >&3 "checking prerequisite: $1"
263 say >&3 "$script"
264 test_eval_ "$script"
265 eval_ret=$?
266 rm -rf "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir"
267 if test "$eval_ret" = 0; then
268 say >&3 "prerequisite $1 ok"
269 else
270 say >&3 "prerequisite $1 not satisfied"
272 return $eval_ret
275 test_have_prereq () {
276 # prerequisites can be concatenated with ','
277 save_IFS=$IFS
278 IFS=,
279 set -- $*
280 IFS=$save_IFS
282 total_prereq=0
283 ok_prereq=0
284 missing_prereq=
286 for prerequisite
288 case "$prerequisite" in
290 negative_prereq=t
291 prerequisite=${prerequisite#!}
294 negative_prereq=
295 esac
297 case " $lazily_tested_prereq " in
298 *" $prerequisite "*)
301 case " $lazily_testable_prereq " in
302 *" $prerequisite "*)
303 eval "script=\$test_prereq_lazily_$prerequisite" &&
304 if test_run_lazy_prereq_ "$prerequisite" "$script"
305 then
306 test_set_prereq $prerequisite
308 lazily_tested_prereq="$lazily_tested_prereq$prerequisite "
309 esac
311 esac
313 total_prereq=$(($total_prereq + 1))
314 case "$satisfied_prereq" in
315 *" $prerequisite "*)
316 satisfied_this_prereq=t
319 satisfied_this_prereq=
320 esac
322 case "$satisfied_this_prereq,$negative_prereq" in
323 t,|,t)
324 ok_prereq=$(($ok_prereq + 1))
327 # Keep a list of missing prerequisites; restore
328 # the negative marker if necessary.
329 prerequisite=${negative_prereq:+!}$prerequisite
330 if test -z "$missing_prereq"
331 then
332 missing_prereq=$prerequisite
333 else
334 missing_prereq="$prerequisite,$missing_prereq"
336 esac
337 done
339 test $total_prereq = $ok_prereq
342 test_declared_prereq () {
343 case ",$test_prereq," in
344 *,$1,*)
345 return 0
347 esac
348 return 1
351 test_verify_prereq () {
352 test -z "$test_prereq" ||
353 expr >/dev/null "$test_prereq" : '[A-Z0-9_,!]*$' ||
354 error "bug in the test script: '$test_prereq' does not look like a prereq"
357 test_expect_failure () {
358 test_start_
359 test "$#" = 3 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
360 test "$#" = 2 ||
361 error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to test-expect-failure"
362 test_verify_prereq
363 export test_prereq
364 if ! test_skip "$@"
365 then
366 say >&3 "checking known breakage: $2"
367 if test_run_ "$2" expecting_failure
368 then
369 test_known_broken_ok_ "$1"
370 else
371 test_known_broken_failure_ "$1"
374 test_finish_
377 test_expect_success () {
378 test_start_
379 test "$#" = 3 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
380 test "$#" = 2 ||
381 error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to test-expect-success"
382 test_verify_prereq
383 export test_prereq
384 if ! test_skip "$@"
385 then
386 say >&3 "expecting success: $2"
387 if test_run_ "$2"
388 then
389 test_ok_ "$1"
390 else
391 test_failure_ "$@"
394 test_finish_
397 # test_external runs external test scripts that provide continuous
398 # test output about their progress, and succeeds/fails on
399 # zero/non-zero exit code. It outputs the test output on stdout even
400 # in non-verbose mode, and announces the external script with "# run
401 # <n>: ..." before running it. When providing relative paths, keep in
402 # mind that all scripts run in "trash directory".
403 # Usage: test_external description command arguments...
404 # Example: test_external 'Perl API' perl ../path/to/test.pl
405 test_external () {
406 test "$#" = 4 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
407 test "$#" = 3 ||
408 error >&5 "bug in the test script: not 3 or 4 parameters to test_external"
409 descr="$1"
410 shift
411 test_verify_prereq
412 export test_prereq
413 if ! test_skip "$descr" "$@"
414 then
415 # Announce the script to reduce confusion about the
416 # test output that follows.
417 say_color "" "# run $test_count: $descr ($*)"
418 # Export TEST_DIRECTORY, TRASH_DIRECTORY and GIT_TEST_LONG
419 # to be able to use them in script
420 export TEST_DIRECTORY TRASH_DIRECTORY GIT_TEST_LONG
421 # Run command; redirect its stderr to &4 as in
422 # test_run_, but keep its stdout on our stdout even in
423 # non-verbose mode.
424 "$@" 2>&4
425 if test "$?" = 0
426 then
427 if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0; then
428 test_ok_ "$descr"
429 else
430 say_color "" "# test_external test $descr was ok"
431 test_success=$(($test_success + 1))
433 else
434 if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0; then
435 test_failure_ "$descr" "$@"
436 else
437 say_color error "# test_external test $descr failed: $@"
438 test_failure=$(($test_failure + 1))
444 # Like test_external, but in addition tests that the command generated
445 # no output on stderr.
446 test_external_without_stderr () {
447 # The temporary file has no (and must have no) security
448 # implications.
449 tmp=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}
450 stderr="$tmp/git-external-stderr.$$.tmp"
451 test_external "$@" 4> "$stderr"
452 test -f "$stderr" || error "Internal error: $stderr disappeared."
453 descr="no stderr: $1"
454 shift
455 say >&3 "# expecting no stderr from previous command"
456 if test ! -s "$stderr"
457 then
458 rm "$stderr"
460 if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0; then
461 test_ok_ "$descr"
462 else
463 say_color "" "# test_external_without_stderr test $descr was ok"
464 test_success=$(($test_success + 1))
466 else
467 if test "$verbose" = t
468 then
469 output=$(echo; echo "# Stderr is:"; cat "$stderr")
470 else
471 output=
473 # rm first in case test_failure exits.
474 rm "$stderr"
475 if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0; then
476 test_failure_ "$descr" "$@" "$output"
477 else
478 say_color error "# test_external_without_stderr test $descr failed: $@: $output"
479 test_failure=$(($test_failure + 1))
484 # debugging-friendly alternatives to "test [-f|-d|-e]"
485 # The commands test the existence or non-existence of $1. $2 can be
486 # given to provide a more precise diagnosis.
487 test_path_is_file () {
488 if ! test -f "$1"
489 then
490 echo "File $1 doesn't exist. $2"
491 false
495 test_path_is_dir () {
496 if ! test -d "$1"
497 then
498 echo "Directory $1 doesn't exist. $2"
499 false
503 # Check if the directory exists and is empty as expected, barf otherwise.
504 test_dir_is_empty () {
505 test_path_is_dir "$1" &&
506 if test -n "$(ls -a1 "$1" | egrep -v '^\.\.?$')"
507 then
508 echo "Directory '$1' is not empty, it contains:"
509 ls -la "$1"
510 return 1
514 test_path_is_missing () {
515 if test -e "$1"
516 then
517 echo "Path exists:"
518 ls -ld "$1"
519 if test $# -ge 1
520 then
521 echo "$*"
523 false
527 # test_line_count checks that a file has the number of lines it
528 # ought to. For example:
530 # test_expect_success 'produce exactly one line of output' '
531 # do something >output &&
532 # test_line_count = 1 output
535 # is like "test $(wc -l <output) = 1" except that it passes the
536 # output through when the number of lines is wrong.
538 test_line_count () {
539 if test $# != 3
540 then
541 error "bug in the test script: not 3 parameters to test_line_count"
542 elif ! test $(wc -l <"$3") "$1" "$2"
543 then
544 echo "test_line_count: line count for $3 !$1 $2"
545 cat "$3"
546 return 1
550 # This is not among top-level (test_expect_success | test_expect_failure)
551 # but is a prefix that can be used in the test script, like:
553 # test_expect_success 'complain and die' '
554 # do something &&
555 # do something else &&
556 # test_must_fail git checkout ../outerspace
559 # Writing this as "! git checkout ../outerspace" is wrong, because
560 # the failure could be due to a segv. We want a controlled failure.
562 test_must_fail () {
563 "$@"
564 exit_code=$?
565 if test $exit_code = 0; then
566 echo >&2 "test_must_fail: command succeeded: $*"
567 return 1
568 elif test $exit_code -gt 129 && test $exit_code -le 192; then
569 echo >&2 "test_must_fail: died by signal: $*"
570 return 1
571 elif test $exit_code = 127; then
572 echo >&2 "test_must_fail: command not found: $*"
573 return 1
574 elif test $exit_code = 126; then
575 echo >&2 "test_must_fail: valgrind error: $*"
576 return 1
578 return 0
581 # Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerates success, too. This is
582 # meant to be used in contexts like:
584 # test_expect_success 'some command works without configuration' '
585 # test_might_fail git config --unset all.configuration &&
586 # do something
589 # Writing "git config --unset all.configuration || :" would be wrong,
590 # because we want to notice if it fails due to segv.
592 test_might_fail () {
593 "$@"
594 exit_code=$?
595 if test $exit_code -gt 129 && test $exit_code -le 192; then
596 echo >&2 "test_might_fail: died by signal: $*"
597 return 1
598 elif test $exit_code = 127; then
599 echo >&2 "test_might_fail: command not found: $*"
600 return 1
602 return 0
605 # Similar to test_must_fail and test_might_fail, but check that a
606 # given command exited with a given exit code. Meant to be used as:
608 # test_expect_success 'Merge with d/f conflicts' '
609 # test_expect_code 1 git merge "merge msg" B master
612 test_expect_code () {
613 want_code=$1
614 shift
615 "$@"
616 exit_code=$?
617 if test $exit_code = $want_code
618 then
619 return 0
622 echo >&2 "test_expect_code: command exited with $exit_code, we wanted $want_code $*"
623 return 1
626 # test_cmp is a helper function to compare actual and expected output.
627 # You can use it like:
629 # test_expect_success 'foo works' '
630 # echo expected >expected &&
631 # foo >actual &&
632 # test_cmp expected actual
635 # This could be written as either "cmp" or "diff -u", but:
636 # - cmp's output is not nearly as easy to read as diff -u
637 # - not all diff versions understand "-u"
639 test_cmp() {
640 $GIT_TEST_CMP "$@"
643 # test_cmp_bin - helper to compare binary files
645 test_cmp_bin() {
646 cmp "$@"
649 # Call any command "$@" but be more verbose about its
650 # failure. This is handy for commands like "test" which do
651 # not output anything when they fail.
652 verbose () {
653 "$@" && return 0
654 echo >&2 "command failed: $(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@")"
655 return 1
658 # Check if the file expected to be empty is indeed empty, and barfs
659 # otherwise.
661 test_must_be_empty () {
662 if test -s "$1"
663 then
664 echo "'$1' is not empty, it contains:"
665 cat "$1"
666 return 1
670 # Tests that its two parameters refer to the same revision
671 test_cmp_rev () {
672 git rev-parse --verify "$1" >expect.rev &&
673 git rev-parse --verify "$2" >actual.rev &&
674 test_cmp expect.rev actual.rev
677 # Print a sequence of numbers or letters in increasing order. This is
678 # similar to GNU seq(1), but the latter might not be available
679 # everywhere (and does not do letters). It may be used like:
681 # for i in $(test_seq 100)
682 # do
683 # for j in $(test_seq 10 20)
684 # do
685 # for k in $(test_seq a z)
686 # do
687 # echo $i-$j-$k
688 # done
689 # done
690 # done
692 test_seq () {
693 case $# in
694 1) set 1 "$@" ;;
695 2) ;;
696 *) error "bug in the test script: not 1 or 2 parameters to test_seq" ;;
697 esac
698 perl -le 'print for $ARGV[0]..$ARGV[1]' -- "$@"
701 # This function can be used to schedule some commands to be run
702 # unconditionally at the end of the test to restore sanity:
704 # test_expect_success 'test core.capslock' '
705 # git config core.capslock true &&
706 # test_when_finished "git config --unset core.capslock" &&
707 # hello world
710 # That would be roughly equivalent to
712 # test_expect_success 'test core.capslock' '
713 # git config core.capslock true &&
714 # hello world
715 # git config --unset core.capslock
718 # except that the greeting and config --unset must both succeed for
719 # the test to pass.
721 # Note that under --immediate mode, no clean-up is done to help diagnose
722 # what went wrong.
724 test_when_finished () {
725 test_cleanup="{ $*
726 } && (exit \"\$eval_ret\"); eval_ret=\$?; $test_cleanup"
729 # Most tests can use the created repository, but some may need to create more.
730 # Usage: test_create_repo <directory>
731 test_create_repo () {
732 test "$#" = 1 ||
733 error "bug in the test script: not 1 parameter to test-create-repo"
734 repo="$1"
735 mkdir -p "$repo"
737 cd "$repo" || error "Cannot setup test environment"
738 "$GIT_EXEC_PATH/git-init" "--template=$GIT_BUILD_DIR/templates/blt/" >&3 2>&4 ||
739 error "cannot run git init -- have you built things yet?"
740 mv .git/hooks .git/hooks-disabled
741 ) || exit
744 # This function helps on symlink challenged file systems when it is not
745 # important that the file system entry is a symbolic link.
746 # Use test_ln_s_add instead of "ln -s x y && git add y" to add a
747 # symbolic link entry y to the index.
749 test_ln_s_add () {
750 if test_have_prereq SYMLINKS
751 then
752 ln -s "$1" "$2" &&
753 git update-index --add "$2"
754 else
755 printf '%s' "$1" >"$2" &&
756 ln_s_obj=$(git hash-object -w "$2") &&
757 git update-index --add --cacheinfo 120000 $ln_s_obj "$2" &&
758 # pick up stat info from the file
759 git update-index "$2"
763 # This function writes out its parameters, one per line
764 test_write_lines () {
765 printf "%s\n" "$@"
768 perl () {
769 command "$PERL_PATH" "$@"
772 # Is the value one of the various ways to spell a boolean true/false?
773 test_normalize_bool () {
774 git -c magic.variable="$1" config --bool magic.variable 2>/dev/null
777 # Given a variable $1, normalize the value of it to one of "true",
778 # "false", or "auto" and store the result to it.
780 # test_tristate GIT_TEST_HTTPD
782 # A variable set to an empty string is set to 'false'.
783 # A variable set to 'false' or 'auto' keeps its value.
784 # Anything else is set to 'true'.
785 # An unset variable defaults to 'auto'.
787 # The last rule is to allow people to set the variable to an empty
788 # string and export it to decline testing the particular feature
789 # for versions both before and after this change. We used to treat
790 # both unset and empty variable as a signal for "do not test" and
791 # took any non-empty string as "please test".
793 test_tristate () {
794 if eval "test x\"\${$1+isset}\" = xisset"
795 then
796 # explicitly set
797 eval "
798 case \"\$$1\" in
799 '') $1=false ;;
800 auto) ;;
801 *) $1=\$(test_normalize_bool \$$1 || echo true) ;;
802 esac
804 else
805 eval "$1=auto"
809 # Exit the test suite, either by skipping all remaining tests or by
810 # exiting with an error. If "$1" is "auto", we then we assume we were
811 # opportunistically trying to set up some tests and we skip. If it is
812 # "true", then we report a failure.
814 # The error/skip message should be given by $2.
816 test_skip_or_die () {
817 case "$1" in
818 auto)
819 skip_all=$2
820 test_done
822 true)
823 error "$2"
826 error "BUG: test tristate is '$1' (real error: $2)"
827 esac
830 # The following mingw_* functions obey POSIX shell syntax, but are actually
831 # bash scripts, and are meant to be used only with bash on Windows.
833 # A test_cmp function that treats LF and CRLF equal and avoids to fork
834 # diff when possible.
835 mingw_test_cmp () {
836 # Read text into shell variables and compare them. If the results
837 # are different, use regular diff to report the difference.
838 local test_cmp_a= test_cmp_b=
840 # When text came from stdin (one argument is '-') we must feed it
841 # to diff.
842 local stdin_for_diff=
844 # Since it is difficult to detect the difference between an
845 # empty input file and a failure to read the files, we go straight
846 # to diff if one of the inputs is empty.
847 if test -s "$1" && test -s "$2"
848 then
849 # regular case: both files non-empty
850 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a <"$1"
851 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b <"$2"
852 elif test -s "$1" && test "$2" = -
853 then
854 # read 2nd file from stdin
855 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a <"$1"
856 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b
857 stdin_for_diff='<<<"$test_cmp_b"'
858 elif test "$1" = - && test -s "$2"
859 then
860 # read 1st file from stdin
861 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a
862 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b <"$2"
863 stdin_for_diff='<<<"$test_cmp_a"'
865 test -n "$test_cmp_a" &&
866 test -n "$test_cmp_b" &&
867 test "$test_cmp_a" = "$test_cmp_b" ||
868 eval "diff -u \"\$@\" $stdin_for_diff"
871 # $1 is the name of the shell variable to fill in
872 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ () {
873 # Read line-wise using LF as the line separator
874 # and use IFS to strip CR.
875 local line
876 while :
878 if IFS=$'\r' read -r -d $'\n' line
879 then
880 # good
881 line=$line$'\n'
882 else
883 # we get here at EOF, but also if the last line
884 # was not terminated by LF; in the latter case,
885 # some text was read
886 if test -z "$line"
887 then
888 # EOF, really
889 break
892 eval "$1=\$$1\$line"
893 done