URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19973>
Summary: Setup for samefile-p-brokenlink.exp fails
Project: findutils
Submitted by: jay
Submitted on: Saturday 05/26/2007 at 13:02
Category: find
Severity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: None
Status: Need Info
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: jay
Originator Name: Nelson H. F. Beebe
Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.3.6
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
When the test setup phase of
find/testsuite/find.gnu/samefile-p-brokenlink.exp is carried out on OpenBSD
3.9 and on Solaris 10, it fails:
Running
/local/build/bare/findutils-4.3.6/find/testsuite/find.gnu/samefile-same.exp
...
ERROR: tcl error sourcing
/local/build/bare/findutils-4.3.6/find/testsuite/find.gnu/samefile-p-brokenlink.exp.
ERROR: ln: accessing `tmp/broken': No such file or directory
while executing
"exec ln tmp/broken tmp/blink"
(file
"/local/build/bare/findutils-4.3.6/find/testsuite/find.gnu/samefile-p-brokenlink.exp"
line 8)
invoked from within
"source
/local/build/bare/findutils-4.3.6/find/testsuite/find.gnu/samefile-p-brokenlink.exp"
("uplevel" body line 1)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 source
/local/build/bare/findutils-4.3.6/find/testsuite/find.gnu/samefile-p-brokenlink.exp"
invoked from within
"catch "uplevel #0 source $test_file_name""
I am not sure yet what causes this, but I suspect that on this system it is
not possible to create a hard link to a broken symlink, or perhaps it is
possible but it requires the use of an option that we are not using.
A useful diagnostic would be to attempt these two similar but different shell
commands on the two systems under consideration:-
# 1
rm -rf broken link;
ln -s nosuchfile broken;
ln -n broken link;
ls -il broken link
# 2
rm -rf broken link;
ln -s nosuchfile broken;
ln broken link;
ls -il broken link
#1 corresponds to what we do now, and #2 passes an -n flag to ln.
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