Re: tests/du/slink.sh: what's the rationale?

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 01/20/2013 10:15 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>> On 01/20/2013 12:58 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>> On 01/20/2013 01:34 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> On 01/20/2013 12:31 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>>>> On 01/20/2013 12:01 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>>>> On 01/19/2013 10:33 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>>>>>> Is tests/du/slink.sh obsolete nowadays?
>>>>>
>>>>> That test is problematic with various file systems, and the original
>>>>> test case is already covered by other tests. I'd tend to simply
>>>>> remove it.
>>>>
>>>> +1
> 
> For the record, it was trying to ensure that not all symlinks
> (across all file system types) have zero size.
> 
> Removing that test sounds fine to me, too.
> FYI, here's the ChangeLog entry for the addition of that file:
> 
>     * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add slink.
>     * tests/du/slink: New test for system.h change of 2002-08-31.
> 
> Which refers to this commit:
> 
>     commit 62808a7fb5cbb2d321719c0cba558f2ce8c90d24

Thank you both.
I amended the commit log with the above information before pushing:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=40b2770a

Have a nice day,
Berny