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

From: Ramsay Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:25:53 +0000

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)
[It's so long since I looked, but I'm pretty sure that the failure
in t0070 is caused by *git*, not by cygwin not supporting POSIXPERM]

> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  t/test-lib.sh | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index 1a6c4ab..94b097e 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -669,7 +669,6 @@ case $(uname -s) in
>  	test_set_prereq SED_STRIPS_CR
>  	;;
>  *CYGWIN*)
> -	test_set_prereq POSIXPERM
>  	test_set_prereq EXECKEEPSPID
>  	test_set_prereq NOT_MINGW
>  	test_set_prereq SED_STRIPS_CR
> 

So, I'm not in favour of this, FWIW.

ATB,
Ramsay Jones