2 # Make sure touch can set the mtime on an empty file.
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20 # Volker Borchert reported that touch 3.16r (and presumably all before that)
21 # fails to work on SunOS 4.1.3 with `most of the recommended patches' when
22 # the empty file is on an NFS-mounted 4.2 volume.
24 if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
31 DEFAULT_SLEEP_SECONDS=2
32 SLEEP_SECONDS=${SLEEP_SECONDS=$DEFAULT_SLEEP_SECONDS}
35 # FIXME: find writable directories on other partitions
36 # and run the test in those directories, too.
41 for d in $TOUCH_DIR_LIST; do
43 > $d/a || framework_failure
44 test -f $d/a || framework_failure
45 > $d/b || framework_failure
46 test -f $d/b || framework_failure
47 > $d/c || framework_failure
48 test -f $d/c || framework_failure
51 echo sleeping for $SLEEP_SECONDS seconds...
53 for d in $TOUCH_DIR_LIST; do
55 set x `ls -t $d/a $d/b`
56 test "$*" = "x $d/a $d/b" || fail=1
59 echo sleeping for $SLEEP_SECONDS seconds...
61 for d in $TOUCH_DIR_LIST; do
63 set x `ls -t $d/a $d/b`
64 test "$*" = "x $d/b $d/a" || fail=1
66 if touch - 1< $d/c 2> /dev/null; then
67 set x `ls -t $d/a $d/c`
68 test "$*" = "x $d/c $d/a" || fail=1
74 if test $fail != 0; then
76 *** This test has just failed. That can happen when the test is run in an
77 *** NFS-mounted directory on a system whose clock is not well synchronized
78 *** with that of the NFS server. If you think that is the reason, set the
79 *** environment variable SLEEP_SECONDS to some number of seconds larger than
80 *** the default of $DEFAULT_SLEEP_SECONDS and rerun the test.