Re: coreutils-5.2.1: test failure - chgrp/posix-H

[Jim Meyering]

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.