#!/bin/sh # Use du to exercise a corner of fts's FTS_LOGICAL code. # Show that du fails with ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links) # when it encounters that condition. # Copyright (C) 2006 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, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301, USA. if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then set -x du --version fi . $srcdir/../lang-default pwd=`pwd` t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$ trap 'status=$?; cd "$pwd" && chmod -R u+rwx $t0 && rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0 trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15 framework_failure=0 mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1 cd $tmp || framework_failure=1 # Create lots of directories, each containing a single symlink # pointing at the next directory in the list. # This number should be larger than the number of symlinks allowed in # file name resolution, but not too large as a number of entries # in a single directory. n=400 dir_list=`seq $n` mkdir $dir_list || framework_failure=1 file=1 i_minus_1=0 for i in $dir_list `expr $n + 1`; do case $i_minus_1 in 0) ;; *) ln -s ../$i $i_minus_1/s || framework_failure=1 file=$file/s;; esac i_minus_1=$i done echo foo > $i if test $framework_failure = 1; then echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2 (exit 1); exit 1 fi # If a system can handle this many symlinks in a file name, # just skip this test. # The following also serves to record in `err' the string # corresponding to strerror (ELOOP). This is necessary because while # Linux/libc gives `Too many levels of symbolic links', Solaris # renders it as `Number of symbolic links encountered during path # name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS'. cat $file > /dev/null 2> err && \ { cat <&2 $0: Your system appears to be able to handle more than $n symlinks in file name resolution, so skipping this test. EOF (exit 77); exit 77 } too_many=`sed 's/.*: //' err` fail=0 # With coreutils-5.93 there was no failure. # With coreutils-5.94 we get the desired diagnostic: # du: cannot access `1/s/s/s/.../s': Too many levels of symbolic links du -L 1 > /dev/null 2> out1 && fail=1 sed "s, .1/s/s/s/[/s]*',," out1 > out || fail=1 echo "du: cannot access: $too_many" > exp || fail=1 cmp out exp || fail=1 test $fail = 1 && diff out exp 2> /dev/null (exit $fail); exit $fail