From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:34:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Don't make the success of the test depend on the
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0q~39
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0952dd04524683189cb49066c6daa938353b656;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Don't make the success of the test depend on the
order in which directory entries are processed.
Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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diff --git a/tests/rm/r-2 b/tests/rm/r-2
index 2334f19d07..cd4a3abd0c 100755
--- a/tests/rm/r-2
+++ b/tests/rm/r-2
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ mkdir $tmp $tmp/a $tmp/a/b
 > $tmp/a/b/g
 
 # FIXME: if this fails, it's a framework failure
-cat <<EOF > $tmp/$test.E
+cat <<EOF | sort > $tmp/$test.E
 removing all entries of directory $tmp/a
 removing all entries of directory $tmp/a/b
 removing $tmp/a/b/g
@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ export LANGUAGE
 LANG=C
 export LANG
 
+# Note that both the expected output (above) and the actual output lines
+# are sorted, because directory entries may be processed in arbitrary order.
 fail=0
-$RM --verbose -r $tmp/a > $tmp/$test.O || fail=1
+$RM --verbose -r $tmp/a | sort > $tmp/$test.O || fail=1
 
 if test -d $tmp/a; then
   fail=1