commit 43625762a9751cc6e6e4d8f54fbc8b82d98fb20d
author K.Takata <kentkt@csc.jp> Thu Oct 20 13:28:51 2022 +0100
committer Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Thu Oct 20 13:28:51 2022 +0100
tree 0261835c4d3eb079e9013ae8277531b12c1d5db2
parent 4c36678ffd1f933a6d4a12415994dea15e4ccec6

patch 9.0.0803: readblob() cannot read from character device

Problem:    readblob() cannot read from character device.
Solution:   Use S_ISCHR() to not check the size. (Ken Takata, closes #11407)

src/testdir/test_blob.vim

diff --git a/src/testdir/test_blob.vim b/src/testdir/test_blob.vim
index a54cede..47315ab 100644
--- a/src/testdir/test_blob.vim
+++ b/src/testdir/test_blob.vim
@@ -508,6 +508,11 @@
   END
   call v9.CheckLegacyAndVim9Success(lines)
 
+  if filereadable('/dev/random')
+    let b = readblob('/dev/random', 0, 10)
+    call assert_equal(10, len(b))
+  endif
+
   call assert_fails("call readblob('notexist')", 'E484:')
   " TODO: How do we test for the E485 error?