Re: t5539 broken under Mac OS X

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 27, 2015, 01:44 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPQNSYZMS+feX=jSxwOhr+P8isroct2=Dcw18LSjCYZUvug=A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> Exactly. I am happy to submit a patch, but I cannot think of any
>> mechanisms besides:
>>
>>   1. Calling `id`, which I suspect is very not portable.
>>
>>   2. Writing a C program to check getuid(). That's portable for most
>>      Unixes. It looks like we already have a hacky wrapper on mingw that
>>      will always return "1".
>>
>> Is (2) too gross?
>
> Not overly gross compared to some existing test-*.c files, I would
> say.
>
> I wondered what 'perl -e 'print $>' would say in mingw, and if that
> is portable enough, though.

$ perl -e 'print $>' 500