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+#!/bin/sh
+# Ensure that ls --file-type does not call stat unnecessarily.
+# Also check for the dtype-related (and fs-type dependent) bug
+# in coreutils-6.0 that made ls -CF columns misaligned.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2012 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
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# The trick is to create an un-stat'able symlink and to see if ls
+# can report its type nonetheless, using dirent.d_type.
+
+. "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src
+print_ver_ ls
+
+# Skip this test unless "." is on a file system with useful d_type info.
+# FIXME: This uses "ls -p" to decide whether to test "ls" with other options,
+# but if ls's d_type code is buggy then "ls -p" might be buggy too.
+mkdir -p c/d || framework_failure_
+chmod a-x c || framework_failure_
+if test "X$(ls -p c 2>&1)" != Xd/; then
+  skip_ "'.' is not on a suitable file system for this test"
+fi
+
+mkdir d || framework_failure_
+ln -s / d/s || framework_failure_
+chmod 600 d || framework_failure_
+
+mkdir -p e/a2345 e/b || framework_failure_
+chmod 600 e || framework_failure_
+
+
+ls --file-type d > out || fail=1
+cat <<\EOF > exp || fail=1
+s@
+EOF
+
+compare exp out || fail=1
+
+rm -f out exp
+# Check for the ls -CF misaligned-columns bug:
+ls -CF e > out || fail=1
+
+# coreutils-6.0 would print two spaces after the first slash,
+# rather than the appropriate TAB.
+printf 'a2345/\tb/\n' > exp || fail=1
+
+compare exp out || fail=1
+
+Exit $fail