--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tests/test-symlink-os-yes-fs-no.py	Thu Jul 31 22:41:19 2008 +0300
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import os, sys
+from mercurial import hg, ui
+
+TESTDIR = os.environ["TESTDIR"]
+
+# only makes sense to test on os which supports symlinks
+if not hasattr(os, "symlink"):
+    sys.exit(80) # SKIPPED_STATUS defined in run-tests.py
+
+# this is what symlink would do on a non-symlink file system
+def symlink_failure(src, dst):
+    raise OSError, (1, "Operation not permitted")
+os.symlink = symlink_failure
+
+# now try cloning a repo which contains symlinks
+u = ui.ui()
+hg.clone(u, os.path.join(TESTDIR, 'test-no-symlinks.hg'), 'test1')