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| author | Nathan Stratton Treadway <nathanst@ontko.com> | 2014-06-28 23:57:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-06-28 23:57:58 -0700 |
| commit | dc72f4d114e9b9eb895f500541c4e473febc4134 (patch) | |
| tree | 235028a32098c1ec4a682ab8e211eda8bc49a54c /tests/extrac09.at | |
| parent | 576e99a21c566598d7a701142e439cb283cac24f (diff) | |
| download | tar-dc72f4d114e9b9eb895f500541c4e473febc4134.tar.gz | |
tar: document xgetcwd test case better
* src/misc.c (normalize_filename): Add commentary for clarity.
* tests/extrac09.at: Retitle test case and add comments for clarity.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/extrac09.at')
| -rw-r--r-- | tests/extrac09.at | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tests/extrac09.at b/tests/extrac09.at index d9e2a4b1..b7218ef8 100644 --- a/tests/extrac09.at +++ b/tests/extrac09.at @@ -18,10 +18,20 @@ # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. -# This checks for the --listed-incremental bug reported by J Chapman Flack at -# http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-06/msg00000.html - -AT_SETUP([no need to save dir with unreadable . and ..]) +# This attempts to cause xgetcwd() to fail, and then checks to see if +# such failure causes tar to abort even in a case where the results of +# the call aren't actually needed. +# +# (xgetcwd() may fail e.g. on Solaris 10 when "." or ".." are unreadable. +# On most systems xgetcwd() won't fail even in that situation, but +# on those systems this test will simply succeed without actually testing +# anything within tar.) +# +# http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-07/msg00045.html +# +# (See also 'listed03.at'.) + +AT_SETUP([extracting even when . and .. are unreadable]) AT_KEYWORDS([extract extrac09]) AT_TAR_CHECK([ |