From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:59:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Warn about the problem, rather
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0w~13
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=95e3f911e2ed5541850ef3710d61d0308c2df667;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Warn about the problem, rather
than failing on some very recent (at least 2.3.99) versions of
the Linux kernel.  Suggestion from Ulrich Drepper.
---

diff --git a/tests/touch/dangling-symlink b/tests/touch/dangling-symlink
index 7e6e0080c6..b61beb4bba 100755
--- a/tests/touch/dangling-symlink
+++ b/tests/touch/dangling-symlink
@@ -17,4 +17,23 @@ touch t-symlink || fail=1
 test -f touch-target || fail=1
 rm -f touch-target t-symlink
 
+if test $fail = 1; then
+  case $host_triplet in
+    *linux-gnu*)
+      case "`uname -r`" in
+        2.3.9[0-9]*)
+	  cat 1>&2 <<EOF
+====================================================
+$0: WARNING!!!
+This version of the Linux kernel causes touch to fail
+when operating on dangling symlinks.
+====================================================
+EOF
+	  exit 77
+	  ;;
+      esac
+      ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
 exit $fail