Hello. I'm trying to work out how tests/ls/follow-slink from fileutils 4.1 can pass/fail, in particular the command:
ls -L link 2> /dev/null && fail=1 This dereferences the link 'link'. It seems this 'ls' command is expected to fail - presumably because the link is cyclic and some function will return ELOOP. 'link' is a cyclic symlink created like this: ln -s link link || framework_failure=1 In the DJGPP port of 'ln', this does nothing. No symlink is created - this is due to the DJGPP libc implementation of symlink(). So the 'ls -L' command fails and the test passes. Perhaps the test should do something like this? ln -s link link || framework_failure=1 test -f link || framework_failure=1 Thanks, bye, Rich =] PS: tests/ls/follow-slink from fileutils 4.1 is the same as in coreutils 4.5.3. -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ] _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils