Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 8/25/2006 11:18 AM:
>> As usual, it requires an addition to the test suite.
>> That is a little tricky, since the test will have to be
>> skipped on a file system without d_type support.
>
> Why?  The test is still valid on a system without d_type; it just won't
> tickle the bug that systems with d_type had prior to this patch.

Good point :)