Re: make check for coreutils-7.2 fails

[Jim Meyering]

Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> please find 'make check' screen output attached. There was no failure on the 
> same machine under the same OS (SUSE 10.3) for coreutils-7.1.
>
> FAIL: mv/i-3.log (exit: 1)
> ==========================
...
> + ls /dev/stdin
> + mv f g
> ./mv/i-3: line 38: /dev/stdin: Permission denied

Thanks for the report.
It failed because your /dev/stdin is not readable.
The patch below makes is so that test will now be skipped in
that situation.

>From 72e01aeb6ec4999f3f6ce72fd35671a65cacfc69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:59:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: skip mv/i-3 if /dev/stdin is unreadable

* tests/mv/i-3: Skip if /dev/stdin is unreadable.
Reported by Sergei Steshenko.
---
 tests/mv/i-3 |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/mv/i-3 b/tests/mv/i-3
index d1f119c..738605b 100755
--- a/tests/mv/i-3
+++ b/tests/mv/i-3
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ fail=0
 ls /dev/stdin >/dev/null 2>&1 \
   || skip_test_ 'there is no /dev/stdin file'

+test -r /dev/stdin 2>&1 \
+  || skip_test_ '/dev/stdin is not readable'
+
 mv f g < /dev/stdin > out 2>&1 & pid=$!
 sleep 1
 kill $pid
--
1.6.2.rc1.285.gc5f54