From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:05:36 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: * tests/tail-2/append-only: If chattr +a fails, exit 77 (to tell
X-Git-Tag: COREUTILS-6_5~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a73fdeb2ce0a1574ec84d7dd7f670217088a818c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

* tests/tail-2/append-only: If chattr +a fails, exit 77 (to tell
automake we're skipping this test), and give a diagnostic to tell
the user the same thing.  Reported by Mike Grayson.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3b6872e9ff..a9a80f505c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-11-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
+	* tests/tail-2/append-only: If chattr +a fails, exit 77 (to tell
+	automake we're skipping this test), and give a diagnostic to tell
+	the user the same thing.  Reported by Mike Grayson.
+
 2006-11-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
 	* man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Replace all optional manpages
diff --git a/tests/tail-2/append-only b/tests/tail-2/append-only
index ee7924540a..cee6644737 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/append-only
+++ b/tests/tail-2/append-only
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ chattr +a f 2>/dev/null || framework_failure=1
 echo x >> f || framework_failure=1
 
 if test $framework_failure = 1; then
-  echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2
-  (exit 1); exit 1
+  echo "$0: chattr +a doesn't work on this file system; skipping this test " 1>&2
+  (exit 77); exit 77
 fi
 
 fail=0