From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:51:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Work around a failing test due to an NFS-based race condition.
X-Git-Tag: COREUTILS-6_9~28
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24045feb85ed265e48b827c01d2f0fd7a48c1350;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Work around a failing test due to an NFS-based race condition.
* tests/cp/sparse: Accept a report that the copy is *smaller*.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 267c5662c6..8ff28c1033 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-03-13  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
+	Work around a failing test due to an NFS-based race condition.
+	* tests/cp/sparse: Accept a report that the copy is *smaller*.
+
 2007-03-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
 	Make bootstrap.conf a tiny bit more generic.
diff --git a/tests/cp/sparse b/tests/cp/sparse
index 98d580d213..b2e940e45b 100755
--- a/tests/cp/sparse
+++ b/tests/cp/sparse
@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ fail=0
 cp --sparse=always sparse copy || fail=1
 
 # Ensure that the copy has the same block count as the original.
-test `stat --printf %b sparse` = `stat --printf %b copy` || fail=1
+test `stat --printf %b copy` -le `stat --printf %b sparse` || fail=1
 
 (exit $fail); exit $fail