Re: Misc Problems with coreutils-5.0.90

[Paul Eggert]

Vin Shelton <address@hidden> writes:

> + diff -u out exp 
> --- out       2003-08-07 13:37:17.441967000 -0400
> +++ exp       2003-08-07 13:37:17.484972000 -0400
> @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
> -0    a/b/F
> -4    a/b
> -8    a
> +4    a/b/F
> +8    a/b
> +12   a
>  ===
> -0    a/b/F
> -4    a/b
> +4    a/b/F
> +8    a/b
>  4    a
>  ===
> -8    a
> +12   a

I happen to have a Network Appliance and Solaris 8 box, and looked
into this.  Here is a patch.

2003-08-08  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * tests/du/basic: Ensure that a/b/F has at least 65 bytes too.

--- basic.~1.10.~       Fri Mar 28 04:55:04 2003
+++ basic       Fri Aug  8 15:50:31 2003
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ framework_failure=0
 mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1
 cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
 mkdir -p a/b d d/sub || framework_failure=1
-printf 'make-sure-the-file-is-non-empty\n' > a/b/F || framework_failure=1
 
 # Ensure that these files contain more than 64 bytes, so that we don't
 # immediately disqualify file systems (e.g., NetApp) on which smaller
 # files take up zero disk blocks.
+printf '%*s' 65 make-sure-the-file-is-non-empty > a/b/F || framework_failure=1
 seq --format=%100g 1 90 | head --bytes=4k > d/1
 cp d/1 d/sub/2