From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 20:41:42 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: t9700: do not close STDERR
X-Git-Tag: v1.8.2.2~31^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/a749c0bbef068af339ea1ac8843f8ca307b3dd35

t9700: do not close STDERR

Much like the previous patch, this triggered an unrelated bug.
Closing STDERR is not worth it anyway, as we risk writing die() and
such to random files that happen to be subsequently opened on FD 2.
Don't do it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/t/t9700/test.pl b/t/t9700/test.pl
index 0d4e366232..1140767b50 100755
--- a/t/t9700/test.pl
+++ b/t/t9700/test.pl
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ BEGIN
 # Failure cases for config:
 # Save and restore STDERR; we will probably extract this into a
 # "dies_ok" method and possibly move the STDERR handling to Git.pm.
-open our $tmpstderr, ">&STDERR" or die "cannot save STDERR"; close STDERR;
+open our $tmpstderr, ">&STDERR" or die "cannot save STDERR";
+open STDERR, ">", "/dev/null" or die "cannot redirect STDERR to /dev/null";
 is($r->config("test.dupstring"), "value2", "config: multivar");
 eval { $r->config_bool("test.boolother") };
 ok($@, "config_bool: non-boolean values fail");