* tests/ls/stat-dtype: Use stat to test file system type, rather

than df -T, in case /etc/mtab lies.  Reported by Michael Stone.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ee704fe3c..f837918bf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-08-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
+	* tests/ls/stat-dtype: Use stat to test file system type, rather
+	than df -T, in case /etc/mtab lies.  Reported by Michael Stone.
+
 2006-08-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	* NEWS: Mention that df exits with nonzero status if it generates
diff --git a/tests/ls/stat-dtype b/tests/ls/stat-dtype
index 5148d5acd..f6a50fda8 100755
--- a/tests/ls/stat-dtype
+++ b/tests/ls/stat-dtype
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ fi
 # linux-2.6.15, at least tmpfs and ext3 work, but reiserfs and xfs don't.
 # Also, tmpfs on Solaris 10 lacks d_type support.
 skip=yes
-test `uname -s` = Linux && df -t tmpfs . > /dev/null 2>&1 && skip=no
-df -t ext3 . > /dev/null 2>&1 && skip=no
+fs_type=`stat -f --printf %T .`
+test `uname -s` = Linux && test $fs_type = tmpfs && skip=no
+test $fs_type = ext2/ext3 && skip=no
 test $skip = yes &&
   {
     echo "$0: '.' is not on a suitable file system for this test" 1>&2