[PATCH] tests/stat: use find -follow for busybox compatibility
Dmitry V. Levin
ldv at altlinux.org
Wed May 8 16:08:14 UTC 2013
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:48:26AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 May 2013 05:00:31 James Hogan wrote:
> > Use the -follow argument to find instead of -L for compatibility with
> > busybox which doesn't have the -L option.
>
> so fix busybox. the -L option is part of POSIX and assuming at least a POSIX
> base is perfectly fair game. anything else is a nightmare of random
> unmaintainable changes.
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html
I'm inclined to rewrite that part of the test in C,
so that more "long long" syscalls could be tested.
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ldv
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