Re: CVS-060720 compilation failure on Mac OS X 10.4, patch (dirfd)

[Kevin Ryde]

Claes Wallin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>         * test-suite/tests/dirfd.test:
>           Since dirfd is used by readdir on platforms that have it, this test
>           does an opendir and two consecutive readdirs, expecting "." and 
> "..".
>           Not sure if this works on non-posix platforms.

Yep, not sure about "." and "..", though I remember most unixy stuff
on DOS systems synthesising them in the bad old days.  There's an
existing test in filesys.test when expects the root directory "/" to
be non-empty; it at least exercises the opendir/readdir/closedir
sequence.

Perhaps a test that created a long-named temporary file (in the
builddir) would be an idea.  But might have to communicate the
NAME_MAX (or equivalent) size to the scheme level to do that
effectively.