On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 04:52:59PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> Before this change, C<chdir sys> (performed in various places in the
> File::Find tests) would set default to the system library directory. Ouch.
> The logical name SYS is defined in the description file (Makefile) to help
> out the C compiler, but it would also cause the tests
> lib/File/Find/t/taint.t and lib/File/Find/t/find.t to mysteriously fail when
> run as part of "MMK test", but not when run via any other method.
>
> Since these tests also do quite a bit of deleting in order to clean up after
> themselves, it's a bit scary how easily they can end up in the wrong place
> (like the root of my system disk, for example). I don't understand why
> File::Find needs to change to a directory in order to see what's there, but
> I'm probably just being grumpy.
Thanks, applied.
> --- vms/test.com;-0 Wed Mar 20 15:11:22 2002
> +++ vms/test.com Fri Mar 22 16:33:36 2002
> @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
> $ If F$Search("VMSPIPE.COM").nes."" then Delete/Log/Noconfirm VMSPIPE.COM;*
> $ Copy/Log/NoConfirm [-]VMSPIPE.COM []
> $!
> +$! This may be set for the C compiler in descrip.mms, but it confuses the
>File::Find tests
> +$ DeAssign sys
> +$!
> $! And do it
> $ Show Process/Accounting
> $ testdir = "Directory/NoHead/NoTrail/Column=1"
> [end of patch]
>
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