Minor typo in a comment.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> wrote:
> The SANITY precondition was not set when running as root,
> but this is not 100% reliable for CYGWIN:
>
> A file may be allowed to be deleted when the containing
> directory does not have write permissions.
>
> See
> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463216.aspx
> "...In UNIX, the write permission bit on a directory permits both
> the creation and removal of new files or sub-directories in the directory.
> On Windows, the Write_Data access right controls the creation of new
> sub-files and the Delete_Child access right controls the deletion. ...."
>
> We may argue that the translation of the POSIX write permission bit
> into "Windows access rights" can be improved in CYGWIN.
>
> A dynamic test handles all cases: when the sequence
> $ mkdir SANETESTD &&
> $ chmod +w SANETESTD &&
> $ >SANETESTD/x &&
> $ ! rm SANETESTD/x
> succeeds the prerequisite SANITY is true.
>
> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de>
> ---
> t/test-lib.sh | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index 93f7cad..887e986 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -1038,8 +1038,23 @@ test_lazy_prereq NOT_ROOT '
>
> # When the tests are run as root, permission tests will report that
> # things are writable when they shouldn't be.
> +# Special check for CYGWIN (or Windows in general):
> +# A file can be deleted, even if the containing directory does'nt
s/does'nt/doesn't/
> +# have write permissions
> test_lazy_prereq SANITY '
> - test_have_prereq POSIXPERM,NOT_ROOT
> + mkdir SANETESTD &&
> + chmod +w SANETESTD &&
> + >SANETESTD/x &&
> + chmod -w SANETESTD ||
> + error "bug in test sript: cannot prepare SANETESTD"
> +
> + ! rm SANETESTD/x
> + status=$?
> +
> + chmod +w SANETESTD &&
> + rm -rf SANETESTD ||
> + error "bug in test sript: cannot clean SANETESTD"
> + return $status
> '
>
> GIT_UNZIP=${GIT_UNZIP:-unzip}
> --
> 2.2.0.rc1.26.g3e3a70d
>
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