test failure for openssh-SNAP-20051125.tar.gz

[Darren Tucker]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 01:03:51AM +0700, John Gatewood Ham wrote:
> head: `-2000' option is obsolete; use `-n 2000'
[...]

Sigh.  If anyone is ever talking to the GNU folks responsible for this,
please point out that this breakage is unnecessary.  It's even covered
in the POSIX.1 FAQ (Q 15):
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html

> The attached patch solved this problem for my system.

Thanks.  Does this slightly simpler patch also solve it?  (no export
and no subshell)

Index: yes-head.sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/openssh/regress/yes-head.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.3 yes-head.sh
--- yes-head.sh	12 Sep 2003 20:21:14 -0000	1.3
+++ yes-head.sh	27 Nov 2005 12:34:13 -0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 tid="yes pipe head"
 
 for p in 1 2; do
-	lines=`${SSH} -$p -F $OBJ/ssh_proxy thishost 'sh -c "while true;do echo yes;done | head -2000"' | (sleep 3 ; wc -l)`
+	lines=`${SSH} -$p -F $OBJ/ssh_proxy thishost 'sh -c "while true;do echo yes;done | _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 head -2000"' | (sleep 3 ; wc -l)`
 	if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
 		fail "yes|head test failed"
 		lines = 0;

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