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-rw-r--r--tests/guix-register.sh10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/guix-register.sh b/tests/guix-register.sh
index e99f5c6075..7084ac6b8c 100644
--- a/tests/guix-register.sh
+++ b/tests/guix-register.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-# Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+# Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 #
 # This file is part of GNU Guix.
 #
@@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ do
     export NIX_IGNORE_SYMLINK_STORE NIX_STORE_DIR NIX_STATE_DIR	\
 	NIX_LOG_DIR NIX_DB_DIR
 
+    # Check whether we overflow the limitation on local socket name lengths.
+    if [ `echo "$NIX_STATE_DIR/daemon-socket/socket" | wc -c` -ge 108 ]
+    then
+	# Mark the test as skipped even though we already did some work so
+	# that the remainder is not silently skipped.
+	exit 77
+    fi
+
     guix-daemon --disable-chroot &
     subdaemon_pid=$!
     exit_hook="kill $subdaemon_pid"