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| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/du/8gb | 14 |
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diff --git a/tests/du/8gb b/tests/du/8gb index bd6ffb3b8..140036996 100755 --- a/tests/du/8gb +++ b/tests/du/8gb @@ -30,6 +30,20 @@ if test $? != 0; then (exit 77); exit 77 fi +# FIXME: this should be a test of dd. +# On some systems (at least linux-2.4.18 + NFS to disks on a Solaris system) +# the `dd' command above mistakenly creates a file of length `0', yet +# doesn't fail. The root of that failure is that the ftruncate call +# returns zero but doesn't do its job. Detect this failure. +set x `ls -gG big` +size=$4 +if test "$size" = 0; then + echo "$0: cannot create a file large enough for this test;" 1>&2 + echo "$0: possibly because this system's NFS support is buggy;" 1>&2 + echo "$0: Consider rerunning this test on a different file system." 1>&2 + (exit 77); exit 77 +fi + fail=0 # This would print `0 big' with coreutils-4.5.8. |