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#!/bin/sh
# Make sure touch can create a file through a dangling symlink.
# This was broken in the 4.0[e-i] test releases.

# Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
# 02110-1301, USA.

if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
  set -x
  touch --version
fi

rm -f touch-target t-symlink
ln -s touch-target t-symlink
fail=0

# This used to infloop.
touch t-symlink || fail=1

test -f touch-target || fail=1
rm -f touch-target t-symlink

if test $fail = 1; then
  case $host_triplet in
    *linux-gnu*)
      case "`uname -r`" in
        2.3.9[0-9]*)
	  cat 1>&2 <<EOF
====================================================
$0: WARNING!!!
This version of the Linux kernel causes touch to fail
when operating on dangling symlinks.
====================================================
EOF
	  exit 77
	  ;;
      esac
      ;;
  esac
fi

exit $fail