Subject: Re: bug#16532: Test Fail: "tests/chown/separator"

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:38:28 -0500

This patch makes the test skip on my server (did not test it on other 
systems).

On 01/23/2014 08:09 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 01/23/2014 11:41 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:

>> So I guess this is not a bug, and can be closed.
>> I'll just ignore this failure on this system.
>
> It is a false failure though so would be worth avoiding.
> It's important to have robust tests we and builders can rely on.
>
> Would something along the following be possible?
>
> test $(getent group $group | wc -l) != 1 || skip_ "multiple ids for group $group: $(getent group $group)"
>

 From 3737105eacbb23cbe453a3d210359fea614b7154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:34:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tests: skip chown/separator with duplicated groups

* tests/chwon/separator.sh: skip test if the user's group has
multiple entries.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/16532
---
  tests/chown/separator.sh | 3 +++
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/chown/separator.sh b/tests/chown/separator.sh
index f64b738..ec33f4a 100755
--- a/tests/chown/separator.sh
+++ b/tests/chown/separator.sh
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ test -n "$id_g" || framework_failure_
  id_gn=$(id -gn) || framework_failure_
  test -n "$id_gn" || framework_failure_

+test $(getent group $id_gn | wc -l) != 1 ||
+  skip_ "multiple ids for group $id_gn: $(getent group $id_gn)"
+
  # FreeBSD 6.x's getgrnam fails to look up a group name containing
  # a space. On such a system, skip this test if the group name contains
  # a byte not in the portable filename character set.
-- 
1.8.4.3