Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.20] testsuite: 2 7 8 13 14 16 17 22 28 29 44 45 46 48 51 52 61 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 failed

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

H.Merijn Brand <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> For the time being? It does no harm (IMHO) and only guards against old,
> unsupported or non standard-conforming systems, nor does it break tar.

Perhaps I didn't express myself well enough. All you say is true. What I
meant is that the patch avoids fseek buggy behavior only when
seek_offset==0, but I am not sure that this bug does not exist when
seek_offset > 0, as well. This might require some more experimenting on
your platform. On the other hand, since this platform is obsolete, I
doubt if it's worth the effort.

> > I'll see what can be done.
> 
> Start with documenting how to run a single test in
> README/INSTALL/whateverfileyouthinkbest

I'll do. Technically speaking, the cause of that particular problem
(running two testcases with -k pipe) is that testsuite looks for
keywords in both keyword section of the testcase and in its header
string.   

> I really looked and couldn't find it

Have you tried ./testsuite --help ? :)

Regards,
Sergey