tests/du/long-sloop

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # Use du to exercise a corner of fts's FTS_LOGICAL code.
   3 # Show that du fails with ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)
   4 # when it encounters that condition.
   5
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   7
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  20
  21 . "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ../src
  22 print_ver_ du
  23
  24 # Create lots of directories, each containing a single symlink
  25 # pointing at the next directory in the list.
  26
  27 # This number should be larger than the number of symlinks allowed in
  28 # file name resolution, but not too large as a number of entries
  29 # in a single directory.
  30 n=400
  31
  32 dir_list=`seq $n`
  33 mkdir $dir_list || framework_failure
  34 file=1
  35 i_minus_1=0
  36 for i in $dir_list `expr $n + 1`; do
  37   case $i_minus_1 in
  38   0) ;;
  39   *)
  40     ln -s ../$i $i_minus_1/s || framework_failure
  41     file=$file/s;;
  42   esac
  43   i_minus_1=$i
  44 done
  45 echo foo > $i
  46
  47 # If a system can handle this many symlinks in a file name,
  48 # just skip this test.
  49
  50 # The following also serves to record in `err' the string
  51 # corresponding to strerror (ELOOP).  This is necessary because while
  52 # Linux/libc gives `Too many levels of symbolic links', Solaris
  53 # renders it as `Number of symbolic links encountered during path
  54 # name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS'.
  55
  56 cat $file > /dev/null 2> err &&
  57     skip_test_ 'Your system appears to be able to handle more than $n symlinks
  58 in file name resolution'
  59 too_many=`sed 's/.*: //' err`
  60
  61
  62 # With coreutils-5.93 there was no failure.
  63 # With coreutils-5.94 we get the desired diagnostic:
  64 # du: cannot access `1/s/s/s/.../s': Too many levels of symbolic links
  65 du -L 1 > /dev/null 2> out1 && fail=1
  66 sed "s, .1/s/s/s/[/s]*',," out1 > out || fail=1
  67
  68 echo "du: cannot access: $too_many" > exp || fail=1
  69
  70 compare out exp || fail=1
  71
  72 Exit $fail