From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 19:15:00 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: tests: ls: check that an invalid --tabsize is diagnosed
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tests: ls: check that an invalid --tabsize is diagnosed

* tests/ls/ls-misc.pl: Add tests, generated by a loop over invalid
values, verifying that a negative (-9), non-numeric (zz), or
fractional (0.5) --tabsize argument is rejected with
"invalid tab size" and exit status 2.
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/13278

Link: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/pull/311
---

diff --git a/tests/ls/ls-misc.pl b/tests/ls/ls-misc.pl
index 4a22e35f40..806f2ec040 100755
--- a/tests/ls/ls-misc.pl
+++ b/tests/ls/ls-misc.pl
@@ -349,6 +349,12 @@ my @Tests =
       $rmdir_reg,
       {EXIT => 2},
      ],
+
+     # Negative, non-numeric and fractional --tabsize values are invalid.
+     (map { ["tabsize-invalid-$_", "--tabsize=$_",
+             {ERR => "$prog: invalid tab size: '$_'\n"},
+             {EXIT => 2},
+            ] } qw(-9 zz 0.5)),
     );
 
 umask 022;