Michael Deutschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When testing coreutils-6.3, I observed a make check failure which I have
judged to be spurious.
Thank you for the report.
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.
I'm not surprised.
I was counting on someone like you to tell me how to
perform the check reliably :-)
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.
Can you point to documentation supporting that?
For now, I'll skip the test for linux-2.0.x
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