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Diffstat (limited to 'tests/ln/misc')
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/ln/misc | 35 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/tests/ln/misc b/tests/ln/misc index e4e385e03..1028fd47c 100755 --- a/tests/ln/misc +++ b/tests/ln/misc @@ -88,21 +88,36 @@ touch a b || framework_failure=1 ln b b~ || framework_failure=1 ln -f --b=simple a b || fail=1 -# Create a hard link to a dangling symlink. -# This is not portable. At least sunos4.1.4 and OpenBSD 2.3 fail this test. -# They get this: -# ln: cannot create hard link `hard-to-dangle' to `no-such-dir': \ -# No such file or directory -# -#ln -s /no-such-dir || fail=1 -#ln no-such-dir hard-to-dangle || fail=1 - +# =================================================== +# determine if link(2) follows symlinks on this system +touch a || framework_failure=1 +ln -s a symlink || framework_failure=1 +ln symlink hard-to-sym > /dev/null 2>&1 || framework_failure=1 +ls=`ls -lG hard-to-sym`x +case "$ls" in + *'hard-to-symx') link_follows_symlink=yes ;; + *'hard-to-sym -> ax') link_follows_symlink=no ;; + *) framework_failure=1 ;; +esac + +if test $link_follows_symlink = no; then + # Create a hard link to a dangling symlink. + # This is not portable. At least sunos4.1.4 and OpenBSD 2.3 fail this test. + # They get this: + # ln: cannot create hard link `hard-to-dangle' to `no-such-dir': \ + # No such file or directory + # + ln -s /no-such-dir || fail=1 + ln no-such-dir hard-to-dangle > /dev/null 2>&1 || fail=1 +fi +rm -rf a symlink hard-to-sym +# =================================================== cd .. ../../src/rm -rf $tmp if test $framework_failure = 1; then - echo 'failure in testing framework' + echo 'failure in testing framework' 1>&2 exit 1 fi |