diff --git a/testsuite/sed/sed-recurses-properly b/testsuite/sed/sed-recurses-properly
index 32101008f..bee1a419a 100644
--- a/testsuite/sed/sed-recurses-properly
+++ b/testsuite/sed/sed-recurses-properly
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+# XFAIL
 test "$(echo '12345' | busybox sed -e 's/[[:space:]]*/,/g')" = ',1,2,3,4,5,'