Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> Armin Kunaschik <megabr...@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> t7800 fails on systems where readlink (GNUism?) is not available.
>
> I don't think it's POSIX, but it is present on all POSIX-like systems I
> know. On which system did you get the issue?
>
>> +readlink() { ls -ld "$1" | sed 's/.* -> //'; }
>
> This is much less robust than the actual readlink. For example, if ->
> appears in the link name, it breaks.
I wouldn't allow it in our scripted Porcelain, but the environment
of our test scripts are under our control, so I do not think it is a
problem ("ls piped to sed" has been an established idiom before
readlink(1) was widely accepted, by the way).
> It would be acceptable as a fall-back if readlink is not present, but
> shouldn't activate the "ls" hack by default.
Yup.
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