From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:53:40 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: tests: stat-vs-dirent.sh: avoid a false failure
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X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0cfb60e90da0848406cf3bf35bb9273e6ef01dbc;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tests: stat-vs-dirent.sh: avoid a false failure

* tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent.sh: Skip the test if we can't stat(1),
as the file may have been removed, or have a malformed name
due to '\n' etc. in the file name.
---

diff --git a/tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent.sh b/tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent.sh
index 4be4fadd1f..d50ed6a67f 100755
--- a/tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent.sh
+++ b/tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ while :; do
     file=$(sed -n '1s/^ *[0-9][0-9]* //p;q' tmp)
 
     # Get its inode number (stat.st_ino) via stat(1)'s call to lstat.
-    st_ino=$(stat --format=%i "$t/$file")
+    st_ino=$(stat --format=%i "$t/$file") ||
+        skip_ "error stating: $t/$file"  # removed or newlines in name etc.
 
     # Make sure that they are the same.
     # We know from experience that there may be mismatches on some