From 7f242fadfa216eac6ebb20721943b6e4e90300c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:27:07 +0200
Subject: tests: skip the stdbuf tests when the abs build directory name is
 bogus

* tests/misc/stdbuf: Avoid spurious failure when the directory name
from which we'd set LD_PRELOAD contains unsafe characters.
---
 tests/misc/stdbuf | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tests/misc/stdbuf')

diff --git a/tests/misc/stdbuf b/tests/misc/stdbuf
index a9aed43d5..337504028 100755
--- a/tests/misc/stdbuf
+++ b/tests/misc/stdbuf
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ case " $built_programs " in
   *) skip_test_ 'stdbuf not built';;
 esac
 
+# stdbuf fails when the absolute top build dir name contains e.g., space, TAB, NL
+lf='
+'
+case $abs_top_builddir in
+  *[\\\"\#\$\&\'\`$lf\ \	]*)
+    skip_test_ "unsafe absolute build directory name: $abs_top_builddir";;
+esac
+
 # Use a fifo rather than a pipe in the tests below
 # so that the producer (uniq) will wait until the
 # consumer (dd) opens the fifo therefore increasing
-- 
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