Re: rcs-5.8 test failure

[Mr. Aaron W. Swenson]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 04:15:36PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/17/11 14:57, Karl Berry wrote:
> > test -w /".
> > 
> > Couldn't it fail on NFS-mounted root filesystems?
> 
> Yes in theory, but in practice the NFS-mounted root
> file systems that I've dealt with have been explicitly
> root-writable, using no_root_squash in the server's
> /etc/exports or equivalent.
> 
> > test -w / could certainly have a false positive
> 
> True.  (Though at least our tests will pass....)
> 
> Perhaps a better approach would be something like the
> following: it avoids the issue for NFS-mounted roots
> in exactly the same way that it avoids it for Cygwin.
> 
> --- common-i  2011-08-08 04:54:51.000000000 -0700
> +++ common-i-fix      2011-10-17 16:12:04.686900722 -0700
> @@ -29,10 +29,9 @@ log_rx=
>  cmd=
>  wdisp=
>  
> -case $(uname -s | tr A-Z a-z) in
> -    cygwin*) dont_check_readonly=true ;;
> -    *)       dont_check_readonly=false ;;
> -esac
> +dont_check_readonly=false
> +(umask a-w && test -w $wd/toe >$wd/toe) && dont_check_readonly=true
> +rm -f $wd/toe || problem "$wd/toe not removed"
>  
>  # functions
>  
> 

This patch does the trick. There is still the matter of test t150 failing
unless KEEPD or VERBOSE is set.

On a side note, how about using:

    touch -c $wd/toe &> /dev/null && dont_check_readonly=true

To test for whether or not it's read-only? You wouldn't have to cleanup
after yourself then.

And isn't 'umask a-w' useless, or am I missing something?

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