tests: ensure that chmod, chgrp and chown honor --silent

* tests/chmod/silent: New file, to test all three programs.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add chmod/silent.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.
The bug was introduced in 96a5d2ce6a53d96cb667af78f13e56fadcdb91e6.

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/chmod/silent b/tests/chmod/silent
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d61caf553
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/chmod/silent
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# ensure that chgrp, chmod, chown -f don't print some diagnostics
+
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  chgrp --version
+  chmod --version
+  chown --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/test-lib.sh
+
+fail=0
+chmod -f 0   no-such 2> out && fail=1
+chgrp -f 0   no-such 2>> out && fail=1
+chown -f 0:0 no-such 2>> out && fail=1
+touch exp || fail=1
+
+compare out exp || fail=1
+
+Exit $fail