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Re: [RFC] test-lib.sh: No POSIXPERM for cygwin

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Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date
Feb 8, 2013, 06:08 UTC
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On 07.02.13 20:35, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>>> t0070 and t1301 fail when running the test suite under cygwin.
>>> Skip the failing tests by unsetting POSIXPERM.
>> t1301 does not fail for me. (WIN XP (SP3) on NTFS)
> Others run Cygwin with vfat or some other filesystem, and some of
> them do not cope will with POSIXPERM, perhaps?
>
> Not having POSIXPERM by default for Cygwin may be a saner default
> than having one, if we have to pick one.
>
> It may be debatable to have this default as platform attribute,
> though.
>

Yes, 1301 passes on cygwin 1.5, but not on 1.7. And it breaks on VFAT, for all kind of OS.

Thanks for comments, I'll put more investigations on my todo stack. /Torsten

Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 6 of 6 in “[RFC] test-lib.sh: No POSIXPERM for cygwin”
  1. Torsten BögershausenJan 27, 2013
  2. Erik Faye-LundFeb 6, 2013
  3. Torsten BögershausenFeb 6, 2013
  4. Ramsay JonesFeb 7, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2013
  6. Torsten BögershausenFeb 8, 2013

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