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Test Fail: "tests/chown/separator"

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 16532 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16532: Test Fail: "tests/chown/separator"
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:58:46 -0500

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On 01/24/2014 07:46 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2014 04:09 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> Oh right, grep ^$id_gn: it is so.
>
> BTW: I'd change the skip_ message to reflect the above mentioned
> corner case where getent is not available, something like:
>
> -  skip_ "multiple IDs for group '$id_gn': $(getent group "$id_gn")"
> +  skip_ "group '$id_gn' not biunique: $(getent group | grep "^$id_gn:")"
>

Attached is an updated version, using grep and the suggested error message.
On addition is a "tr '\n' ','" - because "skip" only shows the first 
line of the message, and so multiple groups and not displayed.

-gordon

[chown-dup-group.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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