ls --color: Don't stat symlinks when neither ORPHAN nor MISSING attribute has a color.

* src/ls.c (main): Don't set check_symlink_color when C_EXEC is
colored, unless ln=target (aka color_symlink_as_referent) is set.
(gobble_file): Set f->linkok = true also when !check_symlink_color.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/10608/focus=10927
Reported by Jeremy Maitin-Shepard.
* tests/strace: New file, contents extracted from...
* tests/mv/atomic: ...here.  Source strace.
* tests/ls/stat-free-symlinks: New file.  Test for the above.
Use strace to ensure that in this corner case, ls does not call stat.
* tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add stat-free-symlinks.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add strace.

2 files changed, 73 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/ls/Makefile.am b/tests/ls/Makefile.am
index ecd018edb..45ca9fe5e 100644
--- a/tests/ls/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/ls/Makefile.am
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 # 02110-1301, USA.
 
 TESTS = \
+  stat-free-symlinks \
   nameless-uid \
   color-dtype-dir \
   stat-failed \
diff --git a/tests/ls/stat-free-symlinks b/tests/ls/stat-free-symlinks
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..78d91c90b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ls/stat-free-symlinks
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# ensure that ls does not stat a symlink in an unusual case
+
+# Copyright (C) 2007 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, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+# 02110-1301, USA.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  ls --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/../envvar-check
+. $srcdir/../strace
+
+pwd=`pwd`
+t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$
+trap 'status=$?; cd "$pwd" && chmod -R u+rwx $t0 && rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
+trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15
+
+framework_failure=0
+mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1
+cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
+
+touch x || framework_failure=1
+chmod a+x x || framework_failure=1
+ln -s x link-to-x || framework_failure=1
+
+if test $framework_failure = 1; then
+  echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2
+  (exit 1); exit 1
+fi
+
+fail=0
+
+# ls from coreutils 6.9 would unnecessarily stat a symlink in an unusual case:
+# When not coloring orphan and missing entries, and without ln=target,
+# ensure that ls -F (or -d, or -l: i.e., when not dereferencing)
+# does not stat a symlink to directory, and does still color that
+# symlink and an executable file properly.
+
+LS_COLORS='or=0:mi=0:ex=01;32:ln=01;35' \
+  strace -qe stat ls -F --color=always x link-to-x > out 2> err || fail=1
+
+# With coreutils 6.9 and earlier, this file would contain a
+# line showing ls had called stat on "x".
+test -s err && fail=1
+
+# Check that output is colorized, as requested, too.
+{
+  printf '\e[0m\e[01;35mlink-to-x\e[0m@\n'
+  printf '\e[01;32mx\e[0m*\n'
+  printf '\e[m'
+} > exp || fail=1
+
+cmp out exp || fail=1
+test $fail = 1 && diff out exp 2> /dev/null
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail