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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-04-19 07:26:18 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-04-19 07:26:18 +0000
commita8f2520b15ab992378efc4250cd770f5ab0facf4 (patch)
treeb0671b322a156118e83dbd4dd562f348941e92c9 /tests
parentf55ce3a2dc1e1ce01f9c3a3a5ab1b3dc877d540e (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a8f2520b15ab992378efc4250cd770f5ab0facf4.tar.xz
Use test -p to test for fifos, rather
than the (incorrect) test -f and the (inadequate) ls. ls is inadequate because on some hosts a buggy mv will create a file of the wrong type (problem reported by Eric Blake). Skip this test if test -p doesn't work.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
-rwxr-xr-xtests/mv/mv-special-16
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tests/mv/mv-special-1 b/tests/mv/mv-special-1
index 7c7d05c22..894d3562c 100755
--- a/tests/mv/mv-special-1
+++ b/tests/mv/mv-special-1
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ mkdir $tmp || framework_failure=1
cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
rm -f $null || framework_failure=1
mknod $null p || framework_failure=1
+test -p $null || framework_failure=1
mkdir -p $dir/a/b/c $dir/d/e/f || framework_failure=1
touch $dir/a/b/c/file1 $dir/d/e/f/file2 || framework_failure=1
@@ -43,11 +44,10 @@ fi
fail=0
mv --verbose $null $dir $other_partition_tmpdir > out || fail=1
# Make sure the files are gone.
-test -f $null && fail=1
+test -p $null && fail=1
test -d $dir && fail=1
# Make sure they were moved.
-# Since `test -e' is not portable, use `ls'.
-ls $other_partition_tmpdir/$null > /dev/null || fail=1
+test -p $other_partition_tmpdir/$null || fail=1
test -d $other_partition_tmpdir/$dir/a/b/c || fail=1
# POSIX says rename (A, B) can succeed if A and B are on different file systems,