Re: chicken 5.3.0 - improving POSIX test on Cygwin platform

[felix . winkelmann]

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 5:19 AM <felix.winkelmann@bevuta.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Sorry for the overly late reply. I'm not too familiar with cygwin, what
> > should the tests report here? The cond-expand for "windows" should trigger
> > on cygwin, how is it handling the permission bits (as compared to "raw"
> > Windows systems)? Does it "fake" the normal UNIX permission bits?
> >
> Cygwin maps Windows ACLs into Posix permissions bits, but not 1-1;
> consequently, you can't assume that setting the permissions bits and then
> reading them back will necessarily produce the same results.  Therefore,
> any test that depends on that property should be skipped altogether.
>

Very good, thanks for the information.


felix