On 16/03/2026 22:09, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 16/03/2026 21:43, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
The CI reports a test failure of a new test on NetBSD 10.0:
FAIL: tests/dd/partial-write
============================
dd: error writing 'f': File too large
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 0.000367544 s, 0.0 kB/s
FAIL tests/dd/partial-write.sh (exit status: 1)
Interesting, there are 0+0 records out,
so no partial data written at all (I presume).
We could probably handle that with the following
(I don't have access to netbsd (on cfarm) to test).
cheers,
Padraig
diff --git a/tests/dd/partial-write.sh b/tests/dd/partial-write.shindex
2c3019491..1f4ab7895 100755
--- a/tests/dd/partial-write.sh
+++ b/tests/dd/partial-write.sh
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ print_ver_ dd
ret=$?
if test $ret = 1; then
+ test -s f || skip 'The system disallowed all writes'
grep -F '+1 records out' err || { cat err; fail=1; }
elif test $ret = 0; then
skip_ 'The system did not limit the file fize'
oops /skip/skip_/
