#!/bin/sh # Before diff-3.4, diff --brief could mistakenly declare a difference. # For example, when comparing a file like /proc/cmdline (for which the linux # kernel reports a st_size of 0 even though it is not an empty file) to a # copy of that file's contents residing on a "normal" file system. . "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src fail=0 # Skip the test unless we have an appropriate file. boot=/proc/cmdline test -r $boot || skip_ no $boot file sz=$(stat --format %s $boot) || skip_ stat --format %s does not work test $sz = 0 || skip_ $boot has nonzero size # /proc/self is not useful on the Hurd, where it always points to "1", # so skip this test when /proc/self does not point to a file whose name is # the current process ID. readlink /proc/self > pid & pid=$! wait $pid echo $pid > exp compare exp pid || skip_ /proc/self is not useful on this system # There are two code paths to test: one for non-binary and one for binary files. # $boot is non-binary. cat $boot > ref || framework_failure_ diff --brief $boot ref > out 2>&1 || fail=1 compare /dev/null out || fail=1 # /proc/self/cmdline is a NUL-terminated list of argv values, # so construct the expected output here: printf 'diff\0--brief\0/proc/self/cmdline\0bin\0' > bin || framework_failure_ # And run the command that is embedded in that output: diff --brief /proc/self/cmdline bin > out 2>&1 || fail=1 compare /dev/null out || fail=1 Exit $fail