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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-03-09 18:03:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-03-09 18:03:22 +0000 |
| commit | 115c65d3f466401f9804565f5ed333336e003c63 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c71df99e1c96fcfb774bcb0b421b49e2200f74e /tests/help-version | |
| parent | 3bb36380c3cf56e10586aa850ceb4d43ba8dfbc8 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-115c65d3f466401f9804565f5ed333336e003c63.tar.xz | |
Ensure that /dev/full is a character device
(using test -c) as well as being writable, before trying to write to it.
Otherwise, the test could mistakenly append a newline to an existing,
regular, writable, /dev/full file.
Suggested by Ulrich Drepper.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/help-version')
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/help-version | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tests/help-version b/tests/help-version index a30a309f1..d0ae9a4d6 100755 --- a/tests/help-version +++ b/tests/help-version @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ expected_failure_status_sort=2 case "$all_programs" in *nohup*) - if test -w /dev/full && echo > /dev/full; then + if test -w /dev/full && test -c /dev/full && echo > /dev/full; then cat 1>&2 <<\EOF ************************************************ WARNING: On this system, the built-in echo function of /bin/sh @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ for i in $all_programs; do ./$i --version >/dev/null || fail=1 # Make sure they fail upon `disk full' error. - if test -w /dev/full; then + if test -w /dev/full && test -c /dev/full; then ./$i --help >/dev/full 2>/dev/null && fail=1 ./$i --version >/dev/full 2>/dev/null status=$? |