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Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:27:21 +0200 |
address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
...
> One thing that I am a little worried about by the test is the initial
> mkdir call.
>
> if (mkdir (dir_name, S_IRWXU) < 0 || chdir (dir_name) < 0)
> {
> fail = 3; /* Unable to construct deep hierarchy. */
>
> That also fails if remnants of the test structure are left behind by a
> previous failed run of the test or if there is not enough permission
> to create a directory and other things like that. Not sure that is
> really bad but my paranoia causes me to suggest that the first mkdir
> be checked individually to separate out the two different types of
> failures. And then it always tries to rmdir regardless in that case.
> Check this out.
Right.
In the driver .m4/shell code I'll be careful to make sure things
are cleaned up both before and after.
- ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Bob Proulx, 2006/06/15
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Andreas Schwab, 2006/06/15
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/18
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Bob Proulx, 2006/06/18
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/18
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Bob Proulx, 2006/06/18
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/18
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Bob Proulx, 2006/06/18
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/18
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: ia64 GNU/Linux pwd-long test failure in CVS coreutils, Jim Meyering, 2006/06/18