From 66f8c36584f21340f8993f30be9b8b334731ab7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:53:14 +0000
Subject: improve the test

---
 tests/rm/dangling-symlink | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'tests/rm')

diff --git a/tests/rm/dangling-symlink b/tests/rm/dangling-symlink
index 4fb403749..dd5b7490b 100755
--- a/tests/rm/dangling-symlink
+++ b/tests/rm/dangling-symlink
@@ -24,6 +24,19 @@ fi
 
 fail=0
 
-rm dangle < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || fail=1
+# Skip this test if there is no /dev/stdin file.
+ls /dev/stdin >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+  || { (exit 77); exit; }
+
+rm dangle < /dev/stdin &
+pid=$!
+
+# The buggy rm (fileutils-4.1.9) would hang here, waiting for input.
+sleep 1
+
+# The file must no longer exist.
+ls -l dangle > /dev/null 2>&1 && fail=1
+
+kill $pid > /dev/null 2>&1
 
 (exit $fail); exit
-- 
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