From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:33:10 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: tests: avoid a false failure on HPUX systems
X-Git-Tag: v8.13~123
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4feb5c03bb4122344050efe75325d432db5791c;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcoreutils.git

tests: avoid a false failure on HPUX systems

* tests/dd/nocache: Relax the test, as the system
may return various errors from posix_fadvise().
HPUX 11.31 returns ENOTTY for example.
Reported by Bruno Haible
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diff --git a/tests/dd/nocache b/tests/dd/nocache
index b5afabd..0af165d 100755
--- a/tests/dd/nocache
+++ b/tests/dd/nocache
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ done
 
 # Advise to drop cache for whole file
 if ! dd if=ifile iflag=nocache count=0 2>err; then
-  if grep -F 'Operation not supported' err >/dev/null; then
-     warn_ 'skipping part; this file system lacks support for posix_fadvise()'
-     skip=1
-  else
-    fail=1
-  fi
+  # We could check for 'Operation not supported' in err here,
+  # but that was seen to be brittle. HPUX returns ENOTTY for example.
+  # So assume that if this basic operation fails, it's due to lack
+  # of support by the system.
+  warn_ 'skipping part; this file system lacks support for posix_fadvise()'
+  skip=1
 fi
 
 if test "$skip" != 1; then