Re: [PATCH] tests: fix false failure due to xargs usage

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/09/2013 06:43 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> diff --git a/tests/readlink/multi.sh b/tests/readlink/multi.sh
>> index 3b91544..dc4ba87 100755
>> --- a/tests/readlink/multi.sh
>> +++ b/tests/readlink/multi.sh
>> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ compare exp out || fail=1
>>  # Note the edge case that the last xargs run may not have a delimiter
>>  rm out || framework_failure_
>>  printf '/1\0/1\0/1' > exp || framework_failure_
>> -printf '/1 /1 /1' | xargs -n2 readlink -n -m --zero >> out || fail=1
>> +printf '/1 /1 /1 ' | xargs -n2 readlink -n -m --zero >> out || fail=1
> 
> Still wrong.
> 
> <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/xargs.html>:
> 
>     The standard input shall be a text file.

A "text file" doesn't have to have a new line AFAIK,
so the above should be fine.

thanks,
Pádraig.