> On Oct 13, 2016, at 00:20, Julio Merino <ju...@meroh.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 3:02 AM, Ngie Cooper <n...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: ngie
> Date: Thu Oct 13 07:02:54 2016
> New Revision: 307190
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/307190
> 
> Log:
>   Skip :uchg on FreeBSD
> 
>   Unfortunately removing files with uchg set always succeeds with root on
>   FreeBSD. Unfortunately running the test as an unprivileged user isn't doable
>   because mounting tmpfs requires root
> 
>   PR:           212861
>   Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
> 
> Modified:
>   head/contrib/netbsd-tests/fs/tmpfs/t_remove.sh
> 
> Modified: head/contrib/netbsd-tests/fs/tmpfs/t_remove.sh
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/contrib/netbsd-tests/fs/tmpfs/t_remove.sh      Thu Oct 13 06:56:23 
> 2016        (r307189)
> +++ head/contrib/netbsd-tests/fs/tmpfs/t_remove.sh      Thu Oct 13 07:02:54 
> 2016        (r307190)
> @@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ uchg_head() {
>         atf_set "require.user" "root"
>  }
>  uchg_body() {
> +       # Begin FreeBSD
> +       atf_skip "this fails on FreeBSD with root - bug 212861"
> +       # End FreeBSD
> 
> This is a bad way of disabling a test due to a known bug because, when the 
> bug is resolved, the test won't notice. You should be using the "expected 
> failures" functionality if possible, and based on the change description, I 
> think you can do this here easily. Try:
> 
>     atf_expect_fail "FreeBSD bug 213861 blah blah"
> 
> right before the line that triggers the test failure.

The problem is that this leaves tmpfs mounts lying around, which atf won’t 
cleanup. Otherwise, I would totally agree with you.
Thanks,
-Ngie

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