coreutils/tests/touch/fifo
Jim Meyering 55746a425e Accommodate SunOS-NFS-mounting-OpenBSD mkfifo
bug and `exit 77' if the fifo cannot be created.
Report and suggestion from Volker Borchert.
2000-03-10 11:53:22 +00:00

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#!/bin/sh
# Make sure touch works on fifos without hanging.
if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
set -x
touch --version
fi
framework_failure=0
tmp=fifo-$$
rm -rf $tmp
mkfifo $tmp || framework_failure=1
if test $framework_failure = 1; then
# Make an exception of this case -- usually we interpret framework-creation
# failure as a test failure. However, in this case, when running on a SunOS
# system using a disk NFS mounted from OpenBSD, the above fails like this:
# mkfifo: cannot make fifo `fifo-10558': Not owner
echo '********************************************'
echo 'NOTICE: unable to create test prerequisites'
echo '********************************************'
exit 77
fi
fail=0
touch $tmp || fail=1
rm -rf $tmp
exit $fail