--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+# Ensure that mkdir-p.c's fail-to-return-to-initial-working-directory
+# causes immediate failure. Also, ensure that we don't create
+# subsequent, relative command-line arguments in the wrong place.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+ set -x
+ mkdir --version
+fi
+
+pwd=`pwd`
+t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$
+trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
+trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15
+
+framework_failure=0
+mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1
+cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
+mkdir no-access || framework_failure=1
+
+if test $framework_failure = 1; then
+ echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2
+ (exit 1); exit 1
+fi
+
+p=$pwd/$tmp
+(cd no-access; chmod 0 . && mkdir -p $p/a/b u/v) && fail=1
+
+test -d $p/a/b || fail=1
+b=`ls $p/a|tr -d '\n'`
+
+# With coreutils-5.3.0, this would fail with $b=bu.
+test "x$b" = xb || fail=1
+
+exit $fail