Re: [coreutils] testsuite failures on Fedora

[Pádraig Brady]

On 17/09/10 10:34, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> FAIL: misc/stat-mount (exit: 1)
>> ===============================
> ...
>> + stat_mnt=/shared/home
>> + test /shared = /shared/home
>> + fail=1
> ...
>> Here, the failure is that I have /home bind-mounted on /shared/home,
>> and since I ran the test under /home, the mount location reported by
>> df is different than the one reported by stat -c%m.  This is a new
>> test, and I'm not sure what to do about the issue (whether stat needs
>> fixing to deal with bind mounts, or whether the test is at fault).
> 
> If there's a reliable mechanism to determine
> that there is a potentially interfering bind mount,
> I'd like to skip this test.

Oops, invalid test.
I had forgotten I resolved the bind mount in that case also.
I'll cook up a fix this evening to skip the test if the inodes match
or something like that.

cheers,
Pádraig.