date(1) is used to display the last modification time of a file, which
is not supported on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Darwin. Instead use stat(1).
Tested on OpenBSD.
While fixing the detection of symbolic links on OpenBSD I noticed
inconsistent behaviour:
$ echo hello > hello
$ ln -s hello world
$ zstd hello world
Warning : world is a symbolic link, ignoring
hello :316.67% ( 6 => 19 bytes, hello.zst
$ ls *.zst
hello.zst
$ zstd world
world :316.67% ( 6 => 19 bytes, world.zst)
$ ls *.zst
hello.zst world.zst
In #1520 it is described that FreeBSD doesn't detect symbolic links. The
same is true for OpenBSD. This diff fixes this issue for OpenBSD. I'm
guessing that something similar works for FreeBSD as well. However, I'm
unable to test this.
Pull request #1499 added a new test, which uses 'head -c'. The '-c'
option is non-portable (not in POSIX). Instead use 'dd'. Similar issue
has been resolved in the past (#1321).
tests/playTests.sh uses 'head -c' in a couple of tests to truncate the
last byte of a file. The '-c' option is non-portable (not in POSIX).
Instead use a wrapper around dd (truncateLastByte).
OpenBSD's port building infrastructure is able to build in a privilege
separated mode. It uses a privilege drop model. Regression tests fail in
this mode as xz/lzma is unable to set file group and errors out with:
xz: tmp.xz: Cannot set the file group: Operation not permitted
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:307: zstd-playTests] Error 2
Actually it is not a xz/lzma error but a warning causing zstd's
regression test to fail. Proposed fix is to have xz/lzma not set the
exit status to 2 even if a condition worth a warning was detected (-Q
flag).
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/1124 fixes an issue with GNU/Hurd
being unable to write to /dev/zero. Implemented fix is writing to
/dev/random instead.
On OpenBSD a regular user is unable to write to /dev/random because of
permissions set on this device. Result is failing a regression test.
Proposed solution should work for all platforms.
OpenBSD uses md5 instead of md5sum, and has no device called full.
With this patch, make check runs until #1088. With the assumption made
in the issue make check runs succesfully.
Björn Ketelaars