Re: 5.96: 3 test failures on HP-UX 11.23

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> it's because HP-UX's exec-family functions are not POSIX conforming.
>
> Thanks for explaining this.  The first failure, though, I think is
> due to an unportable use of \< and \> in a sed pattern.  And the
> other failures can be worked around.  I installed this into the
> trunk.  Maybe some of these should go into the 5.9x branch?
>
> 2006-06-01  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       Fix some porting problems in the test cases reported by
>       Ralf Wildenhues for HP-UX 11.23 in:
>       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00238.html
>       * tests/help-version: Don't assume that \< \> works in sed.
>       * tests/misc/close-stdout: Don't assume that >&- works.
>       Add a /dev/full test.
>       * tests/touch/no-create-missing: Don't assume that >&- works.

Nice work-around.
Thanks for the patches.
I've put them on the branch, too.