bug#81481: 31.0.91; dired-test-filename-with-newline failures on 32-bit Solaris sparc

Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:14:31 +0200
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:21:05 +0200 Stephen Berman <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]
> The tests should be skipped on MS-Windows (and MS-DOS) because they
> assume file names can have newlines.  So just checking for an `ls' that
> supports --dired is not good enough (since GNU ls can be used on these
> platforms) and `(skip-when (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)))'
> must be restored.  The corrected patch is attached.  I'm confident that
> with the patch the tests will be skipped on Solaris and Alpine, so if
> Paul and John don't confirm in a day or two I'll go ahead and install it
> in emacs-31.

I've now pushed the patch to emacs-31 as commit 4f36e9e8855 and am
closing the bug.

Steve Berman