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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-09-07 20:50:49 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-09-07 20:50:49 +0200
commite4fa3e78088d7bc088d40283edcdd7393d6a5741 (patch)
treeef9aeab5bf39d64a183af18fc6511fcd24667f4e /tests
parent737461d23fd8e48b597d74d2e30cbb9d1b5a2946 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-e4fa3e78088d7bc088d40283edcdd7393d6a5741.tar.xz
tests: work around Solaris 11 bug
* tests/misc/printf-surprise: Accept bogus prefix on stderr output.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
-rwxr-xr-xtests/misc/printf-surprise9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tests/misc/printf-surprise b/tests/misc/printf-surprise
index dd3c332bb..3336f12a5 100755
--- a/tests/misc/printf-surprise
+++ b/tests/misc/printf-surprise
@@ -61,9 +61,14 @@ exit=$?
# Map this longer, and rarer, diagnostic to the common one.
# printf: cannot perform formatted output: Cannot allocate memory" \
sed 's/cannot perform .*/write error/' err-msg > k && mv k err-msg
-err_msg=$(cat err-msg)
+err_msg=$(cat err-msg|tr '\n' :)
+
+# By some bug, on Solaris 11 (5.11 snv_86), err_msg ends up
+# containing '1> fifo:printf: write error:'. Recognize that, too.
+
case $err_msg in
- "$prog: write error") diagnostic=y ;;
+ "$prog: write error:") diagnostic=y ;;
+ "1> fifo:$prog: write error:") diagnostic=y ;;
'') diagnostic=n ;;
*) diagnostic=unexpected ;;
esac