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Re: Test failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on cygwin


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Test failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on cygwin
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:11:15 +0100

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> Also, I noticed some other tests in the suite that were sensitive to group
> names.  At the moment, I'm not on the machine where I noticed all the
> problems, but off the top of my head, I remember that at least
> chown/separator was calling `id' directly rather than relying on
> group-names, and failing when id returned a space-separated name.

If it is easy to fix the test, then let's do that.
Otherwise, I'd welcome a change that makes it so affected
tests are simply skipped when the only selected/found group name
contains a space.




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