Re: Test failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on cygwin

[Eric Blake]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

According to Eric Blake on 1/11/2005 7:11 AM:
>  Once I manually patched the corresponding Makefile.ins, I don't get very
> far into the testsuite (1 of 5 failed under tests/chgrp)

On a different cygwin box, all 5 of 5 chgrp tests failed.  It turns out
that Windows NT supports non-portable group names, and my primary group on
that box is "Domain Users".  This extra space wreaked havoc on
tests/group-names, since I am not a member of "Domain" or of "Users" on
that machine.  It may be worth considering an update to the `id'
executable to add an option to print group names in a quoted manner, like
the --print0 option to other utilities, then teach the testsuite to split
group names according to quoting boundaries rather than assuming that
group names comply to POSIX portability recommendations.  When I reran the
testsuite with FETISH_GROUPS='root Administrators', using 2 of my
secondary groups with portable names, I was back to 1 of 5 chgrp tests
failing (tests/chgrp/basic, with the error I previously reported about
chgrp not changing ctime).

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFB5TNF84KuGfSFAYARApsUAJ9K+Bd+SC2TmOsR3xwHxmium3+wpwCcDJmg
UhPlXecBZ5yyIqOLqLGdoQY=
=87gb
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----