On 06/21/2011 04:16 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 06/21/2011 03:41 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> It might be useful to see the entire strace output, too.
>>> To get that, remove the "-e stat,lstat,stat64,lstat64" argument
>>> from the strace invocation, and rerun the test.
>>
>> The output of both runs is attached.
>> stat("/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64") and friends is the culprit.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> I can't remember to have anything un-OpenSuSE-11.4-like in my toolchain.
>>
>> To me it seems that the test should count the difference of the
>> number of stat,lstat,stat64,lstat64 calls when run
>>    a) as a dummy:  ls --color=always --help
>> and
>>    b) for ".":     ls --color=always .
>
> That would be more robust.
> Do you feel like writing the patch?

Attached try #1 and the log.

I'm not sure about x-platform calculation, but I guess
   n_lines=$(expr $n_lines - $n_lines_help)
is okay - actually I saw it somewhere else in tests/.

Have a nice day,
Berny