When testing coreutils-6.3, I observed a make check failure which I have judged to be spurious.
The test was ls/stat_dtype, which verifies that `ls' is using the dirent.d_type feature -- which is not provided by all kernels and filesystems. While the test does try to skip systems that don't support it, it assumes the feature is available on all ext2 filesystems. This is not so. In my case, I'm using the lightweight Linux 2.0.40 kernel, which doesn't support that feature for any filesystem type. Also, I understand that even on a cutting edge kernel, the feature will not be available if the given ext2 filesystem was originally formatted for compatibility to old kernels. ---- Michael Deutschmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
