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+#!/bin/sh
+# make sure truncate gives reasonable diagnostics
+# Note open() checks for trailing '/' before checking for existance
+# open (".", O_CREAT & (O_WRONLY | O_RDWR), ...) -> EISDIR
+# open ("missing/", O_CREAT & (O_WRONLY | O_RDWR), ...) -> EISDIR
+# open ("missing/file", O_CREAT & (O_WRONLY | O_RDWR), ...) -> ENOENT
+
+# Copyright (C) 2008 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/>.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  truncate --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/lang-default
+. $srcdir/test-lib.sh
+skip_if_root_
+
+fail=0
+
+d1=no
+
+dir=$d1/such-dir
+truncate -s0 $dir > out 2>&1 && fail=1
+cat <<EOF > exp
+truncate: cannot open \`$dir' for writing: No such file or directory
+EOF
+compare out exp || fail=1
+
+dir=$d1/
+truncate -s0 $dir > out 2>&1 && fail=1
+cat <<EOF > exp
+truncate: cannot open \`$dir' for writing: Is a directory
+EOF
+compare out exp || fail=1
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail