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Diffstat (limited to 'tests/misc')
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/misc/head-c.sh | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tests/misc/head-c.sh b/tests/misc/head-c.sh index 6807c4d5a..eada8d550 100755 --- a/tests/misc/head-c.sh +++ b/tests/misc/head-c.sh @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ #!/bin/sh -# exercise the fix of 2001-08-18, based on test case from Ian Bruce +# exercise head -c # Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -19,12 +19,17 @@ . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ head +# exercise the fix of 2001-08-18, based on test case from Ian Bruce echo abc > in || framework_failure_ - (head -c1; head -c1) < in > out || fail=1 case "$(cat out)" in ab) ;; *) fail=1 ;; esac +# Only allocate memory as needed. +# Coreutils <= 8.21 would allocate memory up front +# based on the value passed to -c +(ulimit -v 20000; head --bytes=-E < /dev/null) || fail=1 + Exit $fail |