Subject: Re: t7800 test failure

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 18:48:57 +0200

Armin Kunaschik <[email-masked]> writes:

> t7800 fails on systems where readlink (GNUism?) is not available.

I don't think it's POSIX, but it is present on all POSIX-like systems I
know. On which system did you get the issue?

> +readlink() { ls -ld "$1" | sed 's/.* -> //'; }

This is much less robust than the actual readlink. For example, if ->
appears in the link name, it breaks.

It would be acceptable as a fall-back if readlink is not present, but
shouldn't activate the "ls" hack by default.

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