On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:13:26 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:53:59 +0200, Doug Evans wrote:
> > Tests can prematurely terminate for various unanticipatable reasons.
> > Can this be solved by making sure any possibly hazardous left
> > over files are cleaned up at start?
> 
> I think it would be best to modify the testcase so that the '. -> symlink'
> is made in a special subdirectory so that the *.exp files loop cannot occur
> even if the symlink is left there.

Done here.  Therefore it no longer tries to delete the symlink as it no longer
does any harm:

$ ls -l testsuite/gdb.base/argv0-symlink.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 jkratoch jkratoch  803 Aug 29 21:59 testsuite/gdb.base/argv0-symlink.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 jkratoch jkratoch 2839 Aug 29 21:59 testsuite/gdb.base/argv0-symlink.exp

testsuite/gdb.base/argv0-symlink.d:
total 16
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jkratoch jkratoch 9493 Aug 29 22:45 argv0-symlink*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jkratoch jkratoch    1 Aug 29 22:45 argv0-symlink-dirlink -> ./
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jkratoch jkratoch   13 Aug 29 22:45 argv0-symlink-filelink -> argv0-symlink*
-rw-r--r-- 1 jkratoch jkratoch 2824 Aug 29 22:45 argv0-symlink0.o
$ _


Jan