From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:09:53 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: * tests/du/deref-args: Use "printf %65536s x" to create a 64KB file,
X-Git-Tag: COREUTILS-6_7~35
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=37012effc9177d4446e3a63f836df371b602a302;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

* tests/du/deref-args: Use "printf %65536s x" to create a 64KB file,
rather than a pipeline that would sometimes evoke a diagnostic
like "seq: write error: Broken pipe".
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1d7e469ddd..4887e934c3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2006-11-23  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
+	* tests/du/deref-args: Use "printf %65536s x" to create a 64KB file,
+	rather than a pipeline that would sometimes evoke a diagnostic
+	like "seq: write error: Broken pipe".
+
 	* tests/help-version: Suppress dd transfer rate output.
 
 	* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.7-pre, not 6.6-pre.
diff --git a/tests/du/deref-args b/tests/du/deref-args
index 1358325de7..79225f5de7 100755
--- a/tests/du/deref-args
+++ b/tests/du/deref-args
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1
 cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
 mkdir -p dir/a
 ln -s dir slink
-seq --format=%100g 900 | head --bytes=64k > 64k
+printf %65536s x > 64k
 ln -s 64k slink-to-64k
 
 if test $framework_failure = 1; then