Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi, > > The stty & stty-row-col tests fail for me, but I can't figure out why. I > wonder whether it's because I'm in a VirtualBox host and it's somehow > interfering with the tests? Anyway, I've attached the logs from a > verbose run of both tests. If someone wouldn't mind taking a look for > me please, I'd appreciate it. > > This is with Coreutils-8.1 on a Kubuntu 9.10 guest under a > VirtualBox-3.1.0 VM on a Windows XP host. > > If you need any more information or debug output then I'll be more than > happy to provide it.
I asked for a kernel version before preparing a patch for this previously reported issue: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00059.html Since you've mentioned Karmic I'm going to apply the following. cheers, Pádraig. diff --git a/tests/misc/stty b/tests/misc/stty index cb3fee5..e8b2a9a 100755 --- a/tests/misc/stty +++ b/tests/misc/stty @@ -63,8 +63,10 @@ options=`stty -a | tr -s ';' '\n' | sed "s/^ //;$sed_del;s/-//g"` for opt in $options; do # `stty parenb' and `stty -parenb' fail with this message # stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations - # on Linux 2.2.0-pre4 kernels, so skip those tests. - test $opt = parenb && continue + # on Linux 2.2.0-pre4 kernels. Also since Linux 2.6.31 the + # other serial control settings give the same error. So skip them. + case $opt in parenb|parodd|cstopb|crtscts) continue;; esac + stty $opt || fail=1 # Likewise, `stty -cread' would fail, so skip that, too.
