Re: fileutils 4.1: tests/ls/follow-slink

[Jim Meyering]

>> Perhaps the test should do something like this?
>>
>>     ln -s link link || framework_failure=1
>>     test -f link || framework_failure=1
>
> That wouldn't work, since `test -f link' would fail even on
> a unix-based system.  But this should detect the failure you describe:
>
>       ls link || framework_failure=1

Of course, I really meant this :-)

     ls -F link > /dev/null || framework_failure=1