tests/touch/dangling-symlink

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # Make sure touch can create a file through a dangling symlink.
   3 # This was broken in the 4.0[e-i] test releases.
   4
   5 if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
   6   set -x
   7   touch --version
   8 fi
   9
  10 rm -f touch-target t-symlink
  11 ln -s touch-target t-symlink
  12 fail=0
  13
  14 # This used to infloop.
  15 touch t-symlink || fail=1
  16
  17 test -f touch-target || fail=1
  18 rm -f touch-target t-symlink
  19
  20 if test $fail = 1; then
  21   case $host_triplet in
  22     *linux-gnu*)
  23       case "`uname -r`" in
  24         2.3.9[0-9]*)
  25           cat 1>&2 <<EOF
  26 ====================================================
  27 $0: WARNING!!!
  28 This version of the Linux kernel causes touch to fail
  29 when operating on dangling symlinks.
  30 ====================================================
  31 EOF
  32           exit 77
  33           ;;
  34       esac
  35       ;;
  36   esac
  37 fi
  38
  39 exit $fail