portability fixes for some tests
Apparently the ls on OS X 10.3.9 exits with success even if the file
given on the command line doesn't exist
diff -r acd8075edac9 b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
diff -r acd8075edac9 b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
diff -r acd8075edac9 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+foo
diff -r acd8075edac9 b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123