Import upstream version 1.28

[debian/tar] / tests / extrac09.at

diff --git a/tests/extrac09.at b/tests/extrac09.at
index bde656f78708e6d603e52cc8102f05f44fcb6540..b7218ef8f2443b7b6fa8ea9b595382935ce2b4d0 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/extrac09.at
+++ b/tests/extrac09.at
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Process this file with autom4te to create testsuite. -*- Autotest -*-
 
 # Test suite for GNU tar.
-# Copyright 2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2010, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This file is part of GNU tar.
 
@@ -18,10 +18,20 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-# This checks for the --listed-incremental bug reported by J Chapman Flack at
-# http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-06/msg00000.html
-
-AT_SETUP([no need to save dir with unreadable . and ..])
+# This attempts to cause xgetcwd() to fail, and then checks to see if
+# such failure causes tar to abort even in a case where the results of
+# the call aren't actually needed.
+#
+# (xgetcwd() may fail e.g. on Solaris 10 when "." or ".." are unreadable.
+# On most systems xgetcwd() won't fail even in that situation, but
+# on those systems this test will simply succeed without actually testing
+# anything within tar.)
+#
+# http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-07/msg00045.html
+#
+# (See also 'listed03.at'.)
+
+AT_SETUP([extracting even when . and .. are unreadable])
 AT_KEYWORDS([extract extrac09])
 
 AT_TAR_CHECK([