Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Adam Price on 5/9/2005 11:39 PM: >> Making check in touch >> make check-TESTS >> PASS: relative >> 0a1 >>> touch: setting times of `/': Permission denied >> FAIL: not-owner > > I've noticed that cygwin also tends to fail this test, because the typical > cygwin user installed / themselves (as c:\cygwin) and has write access to > change /. I don't know if there is a better approach to finding a > directory that the user does not have rights to (cygwin will soon have // > appear as a directory with read-only properties, so // might work, but > doesn't generalize well). Perhaps something like this is needed in > tests/touch/not-owner: > > if test `stat -c %u /` = `id -u` ; then ...
Thanks to both of you. I've just added tests to check owner/group and whether / is writable -- using `test' makes it easier :) Index: tests/touch/not-owner =================================================================== RCS file: /fetish/cu/tests/touch/not-owner,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -p -r1.3 -r1.5 --- tests/touch/not-owner 23 Jun 2004 15:07:05 -0000 1.3 +++ tests/touch/not-owner 10 May 2005 13:30:39 -0000 1.5 @@ -11,6 +11,17 @@ fi . $srcdir/../lang-default PRIV_CHECK_ARG=require-non-root . $srcdir/../priv-check +test=../../src/test +if $test -w /; then + echo Skipping because you have write access to /. + (exit 77); exit 77 +fi + +if $test -O / || $test -G /; then + echo Skipping because you own /. + (exit 77); exit 77 +fi + pwd=`pwd` t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$ trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
