toybox tests include tests for utilities that aren't part of coreutils

[ChrisDryden]

I was recently looking through the toybox and busybox test suites to understand where the gaps are and I saw that the majority of the skipped tests in the toybox test suite are for utilities that aren't included in coreutils.

There is still a bunch of valuable information in the test suite to uncover edge cases, but when looking at the progress of the test suite as a whole it's not too useful to consider the skipped utilities that are not built in coreutils.

It's definitely possible to change the way the test are run so that the utilities that are not built aren't "skipped" and just not run but was wondering if that would be something the maintainers would be interested in doing?

[oech3]

toybox. Not tinybox.

[oech3]

See also #9232 (comment)

[ChrisDryden]

I think this is a bit different than that proposal, I want to keep all of the toybox tests that are for the utilities in the coreutils set of utils, just remove the ones that we don't have so when people are looking at what is being skipped or failing its more useful

[oech3]

If we investigated *box tests we don't need, I think we also list test GNU is missing too.

[ChrisDryden]

Here's a good example where having the additional test tracking helps #9871

[oech3]

We might run {toy,busy}box tests with GNU coreutils to find what we want.

[ChrisDryden]

That would be great, ideally then we could filter our tracking to only the ones that the GNU test passes