New test, for "mkdir -p" failure.

diff --git a/tests/mkdir/p-slashdot b/tests/mkdir/p-slashdot
new file mode 100755 (executable)
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/mkdir/p-slashdot
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Ensure that mkdir -p works with arguments specified with a trailing "/.".
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  mkdir --version
+fi
+
+pwd=`pwd`
+tmp=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp
+trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; rm -rf $tmp && exit $status' 0
+trap '(exit $?); exit' 1 2 13 15
+
+framework_failure=0
+mkdir $tmp || framework_failure=1
+cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
+
+if test $framework_failure = 1; then
+  echo 'failure in testing framework'
+  (exit 1); exit 1
+fi
+
+fail=0
+
+mkdir -p d1/. || fail=1
+test -d d1 || fail=1
+
+mkdir -p d2/.. || fail=1
+test -d d2 || fail=1
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail