test failures on solaris

[Ben Walton]

Hi All,

I'm packaging coreutils for OpenCSW[1] to replace our (now ancient)
versions of {sh,file,text}utils and have hit a few test failures I'm
hoping someone can help me solve.

We're still targeting solaris 8[2] for one more release, and this is
where the results were gathered (sparc in this case although i386 is
affected too).

The failing tests are:
cp/into-self
du/long-from-unreadable

I've traced the first failure to a bug dependent on the ordering of
results from readdir() but I don't see the bug itself in the code.  In
many runs of the suite, the test passes.  I can exercise the failure
in a more regular fashion by making the following change to the
cp/into-self test:

$ diff cp/into-self{,-orig}
42c42
< cp -rl dir a dir 2>> out && fail=1
---
> cp -rl a dir dir 2>> out && fail=1

I haven't had much time to look into the du failure, but will be
investigating more in the next few days.  I haven't seen it occur on
i386 either, if that helps.

Thanks for any help you can provide.
-Ben

[1] http://opencsw.org/
[2] I'm groaning too.

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