From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:43:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] test-chmtime: work around Windows limitation
Message-ID: <7vab4smmab.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1243786525-4493-5-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> Windows has problems changing the mtime when the file is write protected,
> even by the owner of said file.
>
> Add a Windows-only workaround to change the mode if necessary before
> trying to change the mtime.

I'll queue this as-is for now, but shouldn't the code remember the
original mode and change it back?

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
> ---
>  test-chmtime.c |    9 +++++++++
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/test-chmtime.c b/test-chmtime.c
> index d5358cb..fe476cb 100644
> --- a/test-chmtime.c
> +++ b/test-chmtime.c
> @@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
>  			return -1;
>  		}
>  
> +#ifdef WIN32
> +		if (!(sb.st_mode & S_IWUSR) &&
> +				chmod(argv[i], sb.st_mode | S_IWUSR)) {
> +			fprintf(stderr, "Could not make user-writable %s: %s",
> +				argv[i], strerror(errno));
> +			return -1;
> +		}
> +#endif
> +
>  		utb.actime = sb.st_atime;
>  		utb.modtime = set_eq ? set_time : sb.st_mtime + set_time;
>  
> -- 
> 1.6.3.1.54.g99dd