diff --git a/util/why-skip.txt b/util/why-skip.txt
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+# spell-checker:ignore epipe readdir restorecon SIGALRM capget bigtime rootfs enotsup
+
+= trapping SIGPIPE is not supported =
+tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh
+tests/misc/seq-epipe.sh
+tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh
+tests/misc/env-signal-handler.sh
+
+= skipped test: breakpoint not hit =
+tests/tail-2/inotify-race2.sh
+tail-2/inotify-race.sh
+
+= internal test failure: maybe LD_PRELOAD doesn't work? =
+tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh
+tests/rm/r-root.sh
+tests/df/skip-duplicates.sh
+tests/df/no-mtab-status.sh
+
+= LD_PRELOAD was ineffective? =
+tests/cp/nfs-removal-race.sh
+
+= failed to create hfs file system =
+tests/mv/hardlink-case.sh
+
+= temporarily disabled =
+tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly.sh
+
+= this system lacks SMACK support =
+tests/mkdir/smack-root.sh
+tests/mkdir/smack-no-root.sh
+tests/id/smack.sh
+
+= this system lacks SELinux support =
+tests/mkdir/selinux.sh
+tests/mkdir/restorecon.sh
+tests/misc/selinux.sh
+tests/misc/chcon.sh
+tests/install/install-Z-selinux.sh
+tests/install/install-C-selinux.sh
+tests/id/no-context.sh
+tests/id/context.sh
+tests/cp/no-ctx.sh
+tests/cp/cp-a-selinux.sh
+
+= failed to set xattr of file =
+tests/misc/xattr.sh
+
+= timeout returned 142. SIGALRM not handled? =
+tests/misc/timeout-group.sh
+
+= FULL_PARTITION_TMPDIR not defined =
+tests/misc/tac-continue.sh
+
+= can't get window size =
+tests/misc/stty-row-col.sh
+
+= The Swedish locale with blank thousands separator is unavailable. =
+tests/misc/sort-h-thousands-sep.sh
+
+= this shell lacks ulimit support =
+tests/misc/csplit-heap.sh
+
+= multicall binary is disabled =
+tests/misc/coreutils.sh
+
+= your ls doesn't call capget =
+tests/ls/no-cap.sh
+
+
+= not running on GNU/Hurd =
+tests/id/gnu-zero-uids.sh
+
+= file system cannot represent big timestamps =
+tests/du/bigtime.sh
+
+= no rootfs in mtab =
+tests/df/skip-rootfs.sh
+
+= insufficient mount/ext2 support =
+tests/df/problematic-chars.sh
+tests/cp/cp-mv-enotsup-xattr.sh
+
+= 512 byte aligned O_DIRECT is not supported on this (file) system =
+tests/dd/direct.sh
+
+= skipped test: /usr/bin/touch -m -d '1998-01-15 23:00' didn't work =
+tests/misc/ls-time.sh
+
+= requires controlling input terminal =
+tests/misc/stty-pairs.sh
+tests/misc/stty.sh
+tests/misc/stty-invalid.sh
+
+= insufficient SEEK_DATA support =
+tests/cp/sparse-perf.sh
+tests/cp/sparse-extents.sh
+tests/cp/sparse-extents-2.sh
+tests/cp/sparse-2.sh