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

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:08:14 +0100

On 07.02.13 20:35, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ramsay Jones <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> 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)
> Others run Cygwin with vfat or some other filesystem, and some of
> them do not cope will with POSIXPERM, perhaps?
>
> Not having POSIXPERM by default for Cygwin may be a saner default
> than having one, if we have to pick one.
>
> It may be debatable to have this default as platform attribute,
> though.
>
Yes, 1301 passes on cygwin 1.5, but not on 1.7.
And it breaks on VFAT, for all kind of OS.

Thanks for comments, I'll put more investigations on my todo stack.
/Torsten