On 02/02/2015 09:23 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> OTOH, it seems that the sort order of env/printenv is quite stable
> on all known platforms, so I think it might be sufficient for now to
> use the same number of execv()s to work around the problem for the
> failing case as shown in my initial diff.
> 
>> Also note that the grep regexp is slightly too loose: it excludes
>> any name that begins with "_", rather than just the one that is mentioned
>> in that comment.
> 
> Good catch.
> I'll take care of this in the upcoming patch, too.

Patch attached.

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny

>From 1d672ffdc321b458f7901556c13be5d717e04db6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 01:52:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid a FP on aarch64 when comparing env/printenv
 output

The following test fails on aarch64 on openSUSE's OpenBuildService
due to glibc's execvp reversing the pointers of 'environ', i.e.,
the output of "env|tac" equals "env env" on that platform.

* tests/misc/printenv.sh: Use 'env env' to work around the behavior
on that platform.
While at it, fix the grep pattern which suppressed all environment
variables starting with an underscore "_" instead of "$_" (and
"$LD_PRELOAD") only.
---
 tests/misc/printenv.sh | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/misc/printenv.sh b/tests/misc/printenv.sh
index 5c2f7c0..862b48b 100755
--- a/tests/misc/printenv.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/printenv.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@ print_ver_ printenv
 # printenv as a builtin, so we must invoke it via "env".
 # But beware of $_, set by many shells to the last command run.
 # Also, filter out LD_PRELOAD, which is set when running under valgrind.
-env | grep -Ev '^(_|LD_PRELOAD=)' > exp || framework_failure_
-env -- printenv | grep -Ev '^(_|LD_PRELOAD=)' > out || fail=1
+# Note the apparently redundant "env env": this is to ensure to get
+# env's output the same way as that of printenv and works around a bug
+# on aarch64 at least where libc's execvp reverses the order of the
+# output.
+env -- env | grep -Ev '^(_|LD_PRELOAD)=' > exp || framework_failure_
+env -- printenv | grep -Ev '^(_|LD_PRELOAD)=' > out || fail=1
 compare exp out || fail=1
 
 # POSIX is clear that environ may, but need not be, sorted.
-- 
2.1.4

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