Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If anyone in the audience has access to an ia64 system running a kernel >> newer than linux-2.4.19, would you please let me know? > > SLES8 is using 2.4.21.
Thanks. I found a better way to handle this: * tests/mv/no-target-dir: Detect a buggy rename syscall. If found, skip this test. This happens at least on ia64 linux-2.4.19 w/ext3. Reported by Matthew Woehlke. Matthew or Bob, would you please confirm that this detects the problem and skips the test? diff --git a/tests/mv/no-target-dir b/tests/mv/no-target-dir index cf4891c..db7fe94 100755 --- a/tests/mv/no-target-dir +++ b/tests/mv/no-target-dir @@ -35,11 +35,19 @@ cd $tmp || framework_failure=1 mkdir -p d/sub empty src d2/sub e2 || framework_failure=1 touch f || framework_failure=1 +# Skip this test if there's an underlying kernel bug. +mkdir a b b/a || framework_failure=1 + if test $framework_failure = 1; then echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2 (exit 1); exit 1 fi +mv a b || { + echo "$0: skipping this test: your kernel's rename syscall is buggy" 1>&2 + (exit 77); exit 77 +} + fail=0 # This should succeed, since both src and dest are directories,