According to Eric Blake on 1/8/2010 11:55 AM: > > So it seems like this would do the trick (but I have not yet tested it on > a system with the mismatch between kernel and glibc, so no ChangeLog yet...)
OK to apply before 8.4? -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net
From ee6deaa7bc90b26efcc1d23c8b99900d0c027fcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:01:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid spurious failure on old kernel * tests/touch/no-dereference: Skip test if utimensat doesn't support symlinks. Reported by Bernhard Voelker. --- tests/touch/no-dereference | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/touch/no-dereference b/tests/touch/no-dereference index 7adacc4..c1a6748 100755 --- a/tests/touch/no-dereference +++ b/tests/touch/no-dereference @@ -48,8 +48,17 @@ grep '^#define HAVE_LUTIMES' "$CONFIG_HEADER" > /dev/null || skip_test_ 'this system lacks the utimensat function' # Changing time of dangling symlink is okay. -touch -h dangling || fail=1 -test -f nowhere && fail=1 +# Skip the test if this fails, but the error text corresponds to +# ENOSYS (possible with old kernel but new glibc). +touch -h dangling 2> err +case $? in + 0) test -f nowhere && fail=1 + test -s err && fail=1;; + 1) grep 'Function not implemented' err \ + && skip_test_ 'this system lacks the utimensat function' + fail=1;; + *) fail=1;; +esac # Change the mtime of a symlink. touch -m -h -d 2009-10-10 link || fail=1 -- 1.6.4.2
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