bug#8909: tests/ls/stat-free-color: fails on OpenSuSE 11.4

[Jim Meyering]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
...
> LS_COLORS='rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=00:su=00:sg=00:ca=00:tw=00:ow=00:st=00:ex=00:mh=00:'
> ++ export LS_COLORS
> + strace -o log -e stat,lstat,stat64,lstat64 ls --color=always .
> color-without-stat
> dangle-1
> dangle-2
> dangle-3
> log
> ++ wc -l
> + n_lines=5
> + case $n_lines in
> + fail=1
...
> How can I help?

Thanks for testing and the report.
If you apply the patch below and rerun the test like this,

    make check -C tests TESTS=ls/stat-free-color VERBOSE=yes

then the offending strace output should help understand where
the extra stat calls are coming from.

For reference, I get this single call on Fedora 15:

    stat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

diff --git a/tests/ls/stat-free-color b/tests/ls/stat-free-color
index b1c4744..a1f6418 100755
--- a/tests/ls/stat-free-color
+++ b/tests/ls/stat-free-color
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ n_lines=$(wc -l < log)
 # Expect one or two stat calls.
 case $n_lines in
   1|2) ;;
-  *) fail=1 ;;
+  *) fail=1; cat log;;
 esac

 Exit $fail

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It might be useful to see the entire strace output, too.
To get that, remove the "-e stat,lstat,stat64,lstat64" argument
from the strace invocation, and rerun the test.