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Re: 5.96: 3 test failures on HP-UX 11.23
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: 5.96: 3 test failures on HP-UX 11.23 |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:30:55 +0200 |
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.