Re: Make Check on coreutils, darwin failed

[Eric Blake]

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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
  echo Skipping because / is owned by user >2
  (exit 77); exit 77
fi
group=`stat -c %g /`
for g in `id -G` ; do
  if test $group = $g ; then
    echo Skipping because / belongs to user's group >2
    (exit 77); exit 77
  fi
done

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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