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-rwxr-xr-xtests/mv/atomic8
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fdb48b54b..33638db58 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
+ If strace malfunctions, skip the test rather than failing it.
+ * tests/mv/atomic: Required on a mips-unknown-linux-gnu system
+ running the aging linux-2.4.27-mipscvs-20040814.
+
2007-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* src/pathchk.c: Don't include euidaccess.h, as we don't call
diff --git a/tests/mv/atomic b/tests/mv/atomic
index 1fa07360f..728bbfa1f 100755
--- a/tests/mv/atomic
+++ b/tests/mv/atomic
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
# ensure that mv doesn't first unlink its destination in one particular case
-# Copyright (C) 2006, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ if test "$skip" = 1; then
(exit 77); exit 77
fi
+strace -qe unlink echo > /dev/null 2>&1 || skip=1
+if test "$skip" = 1; then
+ echo "$0: strace doesn't work, so skipping this test" 1>&2
+ (exit 77); exit 77
+fi
+
fail=0
strace -qe unlink mv -T s1 s2 > out 2>&1 || fail=1