From c69a98057f47e8b50d8599996aa2fe91b6a8c56e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Tomasz=20Mi=C4=85sko?= <tomasz.miasko@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tests: Avoid writing ever increasing sequence of null bytes
 to test logs

---
 gobject/tests/taptestrunner.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gobject/tests/taptestrunner.py b/gobject/tests/taptestrunner.py
index bdadd9f00..261496197 100644
--- a/gobject/tests/taptestrunner.py
+++ b/gobject/tests/taptestrunner.py
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ class TAPTestResult(unittest.TestResult):
             self.print_raw("  ...\n")
           else:
             self.print_raw("# " + output.rstrip().replace("\n", "\n# ") + "\n")
+        # Truncate doesn't change the current stream position.
+        # Seek to the beginning to avoid extensions on subsequent writes.
+        log.seek(0)
         log.truncate(0)
 
   def addSuccess(self, test):