From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:25:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: skip the test on a system that can handle this many symlinks in a file name,
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~882
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d7a6ee0f3d700d23ca9a9017ce3054771e24c9c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

skip the test on a system that can handle this many symlinks in a file name,
---

diff --git a/tests/du/long-sloop b/tests/du/long-sloop
index 8e777dc521..f857e74db5 100755
--- a/tests/du/long-sloop
+++ b/tests/du/long-sloop
@@ -39,6 +39,18 @@ if test $framework_failure = 1; then
   (exit 1); exit 1
 fi
 
+# If a system can handle this many symlinks in a file name,
+# just skip this test.
+file=1`printf %${n}s ' '|sed 's, ,/s,g'`
+cat $file > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
+  {
+    cat <<EOF >&2
+$0: Your systems appears to be able to handle more than $n symlinks
+in file name resolution, so skipping this test.
+EOF
+    (exit 77); exit 77
+  }
+
 fail=0
 
 # With coreutils-5.93 there was no failure.