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rsync/testsuite/hardlinks.test
Arnaud Rebillout d941807915 Fix flaky hardlinks test
The test was added in dc34990, it turns out that it's flaky. It failed
once on the Debian build infra, cf. [1].

The problem is that the command `rsync -aH '$fromdir/sym' '$todir'`
updates the mod time of `$todir`, so there might be a diff between the
output of `rsync_ls_lR $fromdir` and `rsync_ls_lR $todir`, if ever rsync
runs 1 second (or more) after the directories were created.

To clarify: it's easy to make the test fails 100% of the times with this
change:

```
 makepath "$fromdir/sym" "$todir"
+sleep 5
 checkit "$RSYNC -aH '$fromdir/sym' '$todir'" "$fromdir" "$todir"
```

With the fix proposed here, we don't use `checkit` anymore, instead we
just run the rsync command, then a simple `diff` to compare the two
directories. This is exactly what the other `-H` test just above does.

In case there's some doubts, `diff` fails if `sym` is missing:

```
$ mkdir -p foo/sym bar
$ diff foo bar || echo KO!
Only in foo: sym
KO!
```

I tested that, after this commit, the test still catches the `-H`
regression in rsync 3.4.0.

Fixes: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/735

[1]: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=rsync&arch=ppc64el&ver=3.4.1%2Bds1-1&stamp=1741147156&raw=0
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#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 2002 by Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
# This program is distributable under the terms of the GNU GPL (see
# COPYING).
# Test rsync handling of hardlinks. By default, rsync does not detect
# hard links and they get sent as separate files. If you specify -H,
# then hard links are detected and linked together on the receiver.
. "$suitedir/rsync.fns"
SSH="$scratchdir/src/support/lsh.sh"
# Build some hardlinks
fromdir="$scratchdir/from"
todir="$scratchdir/to"
# TODO: Need to test whether hardlinks are possible on this OS/filesystem
mkdir "$fromdir"
name1="$fromdir/name1"
name2="$fromdir/name2"
name3="$fromdir/name3"
name4="$fromdir/name4"
echo "This is the file" > "$name1"
ln "$name1" "$name2" || test_skipped "Can't create hardlink"
ln "$name2" "$name3" || test_fail "Can't create hardlink"
cp "$name2" "$name4" || test_fail "Can't copy file"
cat $srcdir/*.c >"$fromdir/text"
checkit "$RSYNC -aHivv --debug=HLINK5 '$fromdir/' '$todir/'" "$fromdir" "$todir"
echo "extra extra" >>"$todir/name1"
checkit "$RSYNC -aHivv --debug=HLINK5 --no-whole-file '$fromdir/' '$todir/'" "$fromdir" "$todir"
# Add a new link in a new subdirectory to test that we don't try to link
# the files before the directory gets created. We also create a bunch of
# extra files to ensure that an incremental-recursion transfer works across
# distant files.
makepath "$fromdir/subdir/down/deep"
files=''
for x in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
for y in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
files="$files $x$y"
done
done
(cd "$fromdir/subdir"; touch $files)
ln "$name1" "$fromdir/subdir/down/deep/new-file"
rm "$todir/text"
checkit "$RSYNC -aHivve '$SSH' --debug=HLINK5 --rsync-path='$RSYNC' '$fromdir/' localhost:'$todir/'" "$fromdir" "$todir"
# Do some duplicate copies using --link-dest and --copy-dest to test that
# we hard-link all locally-inherited items.
checkit "$RSYNC -aHivv --debug=HLINK5 --link-dest='$todir' '$fromdir/' '$chkdir/'" "$todir" "$chkdir"
rm -rf "$chkdir"
checkit "$RSYNC -aHivv --debug=HLINK5 --copy-dest='$todir' '$fromdir/' '$chkdir/'" "$fromdir" "$chkdir"
# Create a hard link that has only one part in the hierarchy.
echo "This is another file" >"$fromdir/solo"
ln "$fromdir/solo" "$chkdir/solo" || test_fail "Can't create hardlink"
# Make sure that the checksum data doesn't slide due to an HLINK_BUMP() change.
checktee "$RSYNC -aHivc --debug=HLINK5 '$fromdir/' '$chkdir/'"
grep solo "$outfile" && test_fail "Erroneous copy of solo file occurred!"
# Make sure there's nothing wrong with sending a single file with -H
# enabled (this has broken twice so far, so we need this test).
rm -rf "$todir"
$RSYNC -aHivv --debug=HLINK5 "$name1" "$todir/"
diff $diffopt "$name1" "$todir" || test_fail "solo copy of name1 failed"
# Make sure there's nothing wrong with sending a single directory with -H
# enabled (this has broken in 3.4.0 so far, so we need this test).
rm -rf "$fromdir" "$todir"
makepath "$fromdir/sym" "$todir"
$RSYNC -aH "$fromdir/sym" "$todir"
diff $diffopt "$fromdir" "$todir" || test_fail "solo copy of sym failed"
# The script would have aborted on error, so getting here means we've won.
exit 0