Re: stty & stty-row-col test failures

[Pádraig Brady]

Matthew Burgess wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The stty & stty-row-col tests fail for me, but I can't figure out why. I
> wonder whether it's because I'm in a VirtualBox host and it's somehow
> interfering with the tests?  Anyway, I've attached the logs from a
> verbose run of both tests.  If someone wouldn't mind taking a look for
> me please, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> This is with Coreutils-8.1 on a Kubuntu 9.10 guest under a
> VirtualBox-3.1.0 VM on a Windows XP host.
> 
> If you need any more information or debug output then I'll be more than
> happy to provide it.

I asked for a kernel version before preparing a patch
for this previously reported issue:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00059.html
Since you've mentioned Karmic I'm going to apply the following.

cheers,
Pádraig.

diff --git a/tests/misc/stty b/tests/misc/stty
index cb3fee5..e8b2a9a 100755
--- a/tests/misc/stty
+++ b/tests/misc/stty
@@ -63,8 +63,10 @@ options=`stty -a | tr -s ';' '\n' | sed "s/^ 
//;$sed_del;s/-//g"`
 for opt in $options; do
   # `stty parenb' and `stty -parenb' fail with this message
   # stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations
-  # on Linux 2.2.0-pre4 kernels, so skip those tests.
-  test $opt = parenb && continue
+  # on Linux 2.2.0-pre4 kernels.  Also since Linux 2.6.31 the
+  # other serial control settings give the same error. So skip them.
+  case $opt in parenb|parodd|cstopb|crtscts) continue;; esac
+
   stty $opt || fail=1

   # Likewise, `stty -cread' would fail, so skip that, too.