This was noticed when building expr in coreutils with -fsanitize=memory, which induced false failures resulting in an infinite loop.
* tests/init.sh: Break from the loop if there's an issue with expr(1). --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ tests/init.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 986ff2fa4d..36a5838419 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2025-09-15 Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> + + tests: avoid infinite loop in init.sh + * tests/init.sh: Break from the loop if there's an issue with expr(1). + 2025-09-15 Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> cpu-supports: relicense under LGPL diff --git a/tests/init.sh b/tests/init.sh index 2058822627..6a63f05ee9 100644 --- a/tests/init.sh +++ b/tests/init.sh @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ mktempd_ () err_=`mkdir -m 0700 "$candidate_dir_" 2>&1` \ && { echo "$candidate_dir_"; return; } test $MAX_TRIES_ -le $i_ && break; - i_=`expr $i_ + 1` + i_=`expr $i_ + 1` || break done fail_ "$err_" } -- 2.50.1
