Re: [coreutils] [PATCH 1/2] stat: support printing birthtime

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
...
>> +check_timestamps_updated()
>> +{
>> +  local delay="$1"
>
> I guess we're blindly assuming that coreutils testsuite is requiring a
> shell that supports 'local'?

Yes.  So far it hasn't been an issue.

    $ git grep '^ *local' tests
    tests/dd/reblock:  local delay="$1"
    tests/dd/reblock:  local delay="$1"
    tests/init.cfg:  local saved_IFS=$IFS
    tests/init.cfg:  local d d1
    tests/init.cfg:  local colon=
    tests/init.cfg:  local new_path=
    tests/init.cfg:    local pid=$!
    tests/init.cfg:  local test_func=$1
    tests/init.cfg:  local init_delay=$2
    tests/init.cfg:  local max_n_tries=$3
    tests/init.cfg:  local attempt=1
    tests/init.cfg:  local num_sleeps=$attempt
    tests/init.cfg:  local time_fail
    tests/init.cfg:    local delay=$($AWK -v n=$num_sleeps -v s="$init_delay" \
    tests/misc/cat-buf:  local delay="$1"
    tests/misc/stdbuf:  local delay="$1"
    tests/misc/stdbuf:  local delay="$1"
    tests/mv/i-3:  local delay="$1"
    tests/rm/dangling-symlink:  local delay="$1"
    tests/rm/dangling-symlink:  local present=0
    tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename:  local delay="$1"
    tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename:  local delay="$1"
    tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename:  local delay="$1"
    tests/tail-2/flush-initial:  local delay="$1"
    tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate:    local j
    tests/tail-2/tail-n0f:        local delay="$1"; sleep $delay
    tests/tail-2/wait:    local delay="$1"