Re: [PATCH] Fix some failing tests in BSD systems

[Daniel Martín]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

>
> In the meantime, plot thickens: as pointed out privately by Davis
> Herring, using 'find' on a directory without a trailing slash will
> fail if the directory is a symlink (it will only list the symlink
> itself).
>
> At this point we could double down on this approach and use the '-H'
> argument (though grep-find-template doesn't make this easy), or return 
> to your original patch. Or yet alternatively, paper over this inside
> the xref-location-group defmethod. The two alternatives attached.
>
> So I guess I should ask: was the particular behavior annoying by
> itself, or is it only a problem because of the failing test?
>
> I also wonder whether all macOS users see this, or whether it's maybe
> fixed in some latest version of BSD find. Because it's apparently 
> (arguably) a bug: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/320440/166215

I think the safest and simplest route is to just "fix" the tests so they
pass in all systems.  We shouldn't risk introducing regressions just to
work around what POSIX says could be a 'find' bug in some BSD systems
(and maybe only Apple systems, I don't have any other BSD system to test
with).

It only causes a slight cosmetic problem, which should be fixed whenever
they fix the bug, without needing any code change from our side.