Hello,

Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> skribis:

> On 2020-04-18, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> skribis:
>>
>>> test-name: scandir*, properties
>>> location: /build/guix-YPdZIs/guix-1.1.0/tests/syscalls.scm:257
>>> source:
> ...
>> Looking at this test, the only way ‘every’ could return #f is (1) if
>> ‘lstat’ returns a different inode number, or (2) if ‘lstat’ returns a
>> different file type than the one for ‘scandir*’.
>
> My debian package builds are done using a overlay fs(with tmpfs on top,
> and ext4 below), which might explain inode discrepancies... this sort of
> thing is not uncommon in Debian package building environments.
>
> If that's indeed triggering the issue, maybe it needs some sort of
> workaround or a way to detect if it should skip the test?

Oh, I see.  We would need to see exactly what the discrepancy is (is it
the inode number? for all the entries?), and from there we can come up
with a way to adjust the test or skip it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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