From 95e3f911e2ed5541850ef3710d61d0308c2df667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:59:56 +0000
Subject: Warn about the problem, rather than failing on some very recent (at
 least 2.3.99) versions of the Linux kernel.  Suggestion from Ulrich Drepper.

---
 tests/touch/dangling-symlink | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tests/touch/dangling-symlink')

diff --git a/tests/touch/dangling-symlink b/tests/touch/dangling-symlink
index 7e6e0080c..b61beb4bb 100755
--- a/tests/touch/dangling-symlink
+++ b/tests/touch/dangling-symlink
@@ -17,4 +17,23 @@ touch t-symlink || fail=1
 test -f touch-target || fail=1
 rm -f touch-target t-symlink
 
+if test $fail = 1; then
+  case $host_triplet in
+    *linux-gnu*)
+      case "`uname -r`" in
+        2.3.9[0-9]*)
+	  cat 1>&2 <<EOF
+====================================================
+$0: WARNING!!!
+This version of the Linux kernel causes touch to fail
+when operating on dangling symlinks.
+====================================================
+EOF
+	  exit 77
+	  ;;
+      esac
+      ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
 exit $fail
-- 
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