Re: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab on Alpine Linux

[Bruno Haible]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Perhaps 'sleep' is a shell builtin here which is confusing things?

Yes:
$ type sleep
sleep is a shell builtin

> Does the following help (I don't have easy access to an alpine system):

> diff --git a/tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh b/tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh
> index 3ffb7b0b1..f4f12136a 100755
> --- a/tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh
> +++ b/tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh
> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ for prg in $built_programs; do
>       '[' | expr | stty )
>         continue;;
>       # Wrap some utilities known by the shell by env.
> -    echo | false | kill | printf | pwd | test | true )
> +    echo | false | kill | printf | pwd | sleep | test | true )
>         prg="env $prg";;
>     esac
>     checkprg $prg
> 
> 

Yes. With this change, the failure disappears. And the other one as well(!).
Instead, a new failure appears (!!):
  FAIL: tests/cp/preserve-mode

This is reproducible, not spurious: I ran "make check" 3 times, 3 times the
same result.

Find attached tests/cp/preserve-mode.log.

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