Re: t7800 test failure

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: May 24, 2016, 16:48 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CALR6jEiJwx14zAyond9ggz29Q64Fz84URtjr8zaddjnrdY7TjA@mail.gmail.com>

Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com> writes:

> t7800 fails on systems where readlink (GNUism?) is not available.

I don't think it's POSIX, but it is present on all POSIX-like systems I know. On which system did you get the issue?

> +readlink() { ls -ld "$1" | sed 's/.* -> //'; }

This is much less robust than the actual readlink. For example, if -> appears in the link name, it breaks.

It would be acceptable as a fall-back if readlink is not present, but shouldn't activate the "ls" hack by default.

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Matthieu Moy
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