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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-10-09 07:28:11 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-10-09 07:28:11 +0000
commit70869c09b8220f4f9eece1ffaec394f8c27861f6 (patch)
treeeb6d6a63b07c7b567536091ac8da19e9ac734878 /tests/tail-2
parent9a7b64e70126976ce049c60ede13df34b0ee14ac (diff)
downloadcoreutils-70869c09b8220f4f9eece1ffaec394f8c27861f6.tar.xz
Mark this as an expensive test; it would
consume 4GB of disk space on systems without support for sparse files. Fix a logic error that'd make it `cat err' even though dd didn't fail.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/tail-2')
-rwxr-xr-xtests/tail-2/big-4gb9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tests/tail-2/big-4gb b/tests/tail-2/big-4gb
index 70760256e..61f1720cf 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/big-4gb
+++ b/tests/tail-2/big-4gb
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
# Demonstrate a bug in `tail -cN' when operating on files of size 4G and larger
# Fixed in coreutils-4.5.2.
+. $srcdir/../expensive
+
if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
set -x
tail --version
@@ -23,8 +25,11 @@ cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
echo abcdefgh | tr -d '\n' > big || framework_failure=1
echo 87654321 | tr -d '\n' > tmp || framework_failure=1
# Seek 4GB - 8
-dd bs=1 seek=4294967288 if=tmp of=big 2> err || framework_failure=1
-test $framework_failure = 1 && cat err 1>&2
+dd bs=1 seek=4294967288 if=tmp of=big 2> err || dd_failed=1
+if test "$dd_failed" = 1; then
+ cat err 1>&2
+ framework_failure=1
+fi
if test $framework_failure = 1; then
echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2