bug#26253: Coreutils 8.26 test failure on arm-linux-gnueabihf

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 04:45:33PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> In current ‘core-updates’ (7fdca77e007f0838ecd32b044827678f2b345ff0),
> tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh in Coreutils 8.26 fails reproducibly in the
> chroot build environment; it succeeds outside of it.

[...]

> So the two lines that fail are these:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> # Explicitly disallow values above CUT_MAX
> (ulimit -v $vm && returns_ 1 cut -b$SIZE_MAX /dev/null 2>/dev/null) || fail=1
> (ulimit -v $vm && returns_ 1 cut -b$SIZE_OFLOW /dev/null 2>/dev/null) || 
> fail=1
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> I don’t understand why at this point, but I found that removing
> “2>/dev/null” from these two lines lets the test pass (and AIUI, this
> redirection is not necessary for the test; it just hides the

Is the same Bash shared between these two test environments (inside and
outside of the chroot)?