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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-05-15 12:09:48 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-05-15 12:18:51 +0200
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tests: 'getlogin' test creates its file atomically.
Previously we could end up reading an empty /root/login-id file. * gnu/tests/base.scm (run-basic-test)["getlogin on tty1"]: Create /root/login-id atomically.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/tests/base.scm b/gnu/tests/base.scm
index d578f1977a..cf942fe5e1 100644
--- a/gnu/tests/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/tests/base.scm
@@ -311,7 +311,9 @@ info --version")
"\"root\""
(begin
;; Assume we logged in in the previous test and type.
- (marionette-type "guile -c '(write (getlogin))' > /root/login-id\n"
+ (marionette-type "guile -c '(write (getlogin))' > /root/login-id.tmp\n"
+ marionette)
+ (marionette-type "mv /root/login-id{.tmp,}\n"
marionette)
;; It can take a while before the shell commands are executed.