Re: coreutils-6.0: numerous test failures on MacOS X

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> After this is fixed, only dd/misc fails, and tail/tail-tests hangs.

Thanks.  Your email didn't mention tail/tail-tests after that -- is
that problem known and fixed, or should we look into it further?

> + dd iflag=nofollow if=dd-sym.20477 count=0
> + fail=1
> ...
> It seems that the nofollow test doesn't work?

What does ktrace tell you about the system calls that were executed?
I assume MacOS X has ktrace?

  cd src
  ln -s dd.c sym
  ktrace ./dd iflag=nofollow if=sym count=0
  kdump

On my OpenBSD 3.9 host this outputs a bunch of stuff, including:

  8312 dd       CALL  open(0xcfbf110f,0x100,0)
  8312 dd       NAMI  "sym"
  8312 dd       RET   open -1 errno 31 Too many links

which is the right behavior.