bug#37312: test-symlink fails on "lustre" file system

[Bruno Haible]

Assaf Gordon wrote:
> based on the code in test-symlink.h, perhaps lustre returns an 
> unexpected errno ?
> 
> line 69: ASSERT (func ("nowhere", BASE "dir/") == -1); 
> 
> line 70: ASSERT (errno == EEXIST || errno == EINVAL);

Yes, this is most likely the cause. Can you please insert
this line between line 69 and line 70

    fprintf(stderr,"INSERTED errno=%d\n",errno); fflush(stderr);

then do
   make clean
   make
   make check

and report the output and contents of test-symlink.log ?

Lustre contains a number of kernel patches [1]; this can surely
modify the behaviour of system calls.

Bruno

[1] http://lustre.org/download/