Re: C02cond.ztst failure: -N

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Adam Spiers wrote:

> > } Could this be because the compile is happening on an NFS-mounted
> > } drive?
> >
> > Yes, that's a very likely cause.
>
> In that case, would it be worth adding a check and skipping the test
> when appropriate?

We discussed that but I don't think anybody came up with a good test for
whether the directory is NFS mounted.

> Or, if that's not easily done in a portable fashion, maybe it's worth
> adding a "This test might fail" type of message?

Sure.  In fact, all the tests involving the "newnewnew" file can fail if
the clock on the NFS server is out of sync with the local clock by even
a few seconds.