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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2010-01-08 12:01:08 -0700
committerEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2010-01-12 06:00:05 -0700
commit39243f0ea8efc572e3206b5f0fca12696a52308e (patch)
treec1edfa1cd546e4fb9b73a99839bc27aab08a516b /tests
parenta4da48c4f54bae74ef167db41f65a6eab2ae6a37 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-39243f0ea8efc572e3206b5f0fca12696a52308e.tar.xz
tests: avoid spurious failure on old kernel
* tests/touch/no-dereference: Skip test if utimensat doesn't support symlinks. Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
-rwxr-xr-xtests/touch/no-dereference13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tests/touch/no-dereference b/tests/touch/no-dereference
index 7adacc409..c1a6748b5 100755
--- a/tests/touch/no-dereference
+++ b/tests/touch/no-dereference
@@ -48,8 +48,17 @@ grep '^#define HAVE_LUTIMES' "$CONFIG_HEADER" > /dev/null ||
skip_test_ 'this system lacks the utimensat function'
# Changing time of dangling symlink is okay.
-touch -h dangling || fail=1
-test -f nowhere && fail=1
+# Skip the test if this fails, but the error text corresponds to
+# ENOSYS (possible with old kernel but new glibc).
+touch -h dangling 2> err
+case $? in
+ 0) test -f nowhere && fail=1
+ test -s err && fail=1;;
+ 1) grep 'Function not implemented' err \
+ && skip_test_ 'this system lacks the utimensat function'
+ fail=1;;
+ *) fail=1;;
+esac
# Change the mtime of a symlink.
touch -m -h -d 2009-10-10 link || fail=1