From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:38:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] test-lib.sh: Dynamic test for the prerequisite SANITY
Message-ID: <xmqq7fw6hc83.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <54C9362E.2000705@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

>> OK, but MacOS X does not have SANITY problem; "is the / writable?" test
>> was misdetecting and declaring a system with SANITY does not have one.
>>
>> Perhaps roll Cygwin and Mingw into a single Windows category? I dunno.
> The whole discussion actually started with Mac OS X,
> and the conclusion was that Mac OS X should have SANITY set, but hadn't,
> because  / is writable (if you install from scratch):

Exactly.  

On MacOSX running as non-root-but-can-write-to-slash-user, we should
say SANITY is satisfied, but "is the / writable?" check was
misdetecting and declaring the system does not have SANITY.

So we are in agreement, no?