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Re: coreutils-5.2.1: test failure - chgrp/posix-H
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils-5.2.1: test failure - chgrp/posix-H |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:40:01 +0200 |
Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have observed a test failure of coreutils-5.2.1 on my system.
Thanks for reporting it.
> The failing test is "chgrp/posix-H". This test does not give any useful
> output. However, experiments with a modified test script (with added echo
> statements) show that the problem is with the test file "1", in the first
> "for" loop of the test. The test expects it's group to have changed to
> "$g2", but it has not.
>
> Vitals:
> i486-pc-linux-gnu
> Linux 2.0.40
> GCC 2.95.3
> GLIBC 2.1.3
linux-2.0.40 must have parts that are pretty old, and not as
standards-compliant. I suspect that is the problem.
With linux-2.2 through 2.6, I know of no test failures.