From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:04:24 GMT
Subject: Re: t5539 broken under Mac OS X
Message-ID: <xmqqh9vr4mlz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150115235752.GB25120@peff.net>

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.