Re: looking for ia64 linux newer than 2.4.19 [Re: coreutils-6.6 check failures on Itanium Linux

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> I found a better way to handle this:
>
>         * tests/mv/no-target-dir: Detect a buggy rename syscall.  If found,
>         skip this test.  This happens at least on ia64 linux-2.4.19 w/ext3.
>         Reported by Matthew Woehlke.
>
> Matthew or Bob, would you please confirm that this detects the
> problem and skips the test?
>
> [patch snipped]

Yes, that works (causes the test to be skipped). My only comment is I 
think I would like to see a more detailed message, maybe 'this test is 
being skipped because your kernel's rename() is buggy and does not 
permit a directory to be renamed onto an existing directory'.

And FYI dir2dir passes with your patch elsewhere in this thread. :-) Thanks!

Making check in mv
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/install/gnu/src/coreutils-6.6/tests/mv'
make  check-TESTS
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/install/gnu/src/coreutils-6.6/tests/mv'
PASS: hard-verbose
PASS: backup-dir
PASS: dir2dir
mv: cannot move `a' to `b/a': Device or resource busy
./no-target-dir: skipping this test: your kernel's rename syscall is buggy
SKIP: no-target-dir
PASS: atomic
...
PASS: trailing-slash
======================
All 34 tests passed
(3 tests were not run)
======================
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/install/gnu/src/coreutils-6.6/tests/mv'

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Matthew
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