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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] test-lib.sh: Dynamic test for the prerequisite SANITY
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:38:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7fw6hc83.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C9362E.2000705@web.de> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:19:10 +0100")

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?

      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-28 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-27 15:39 [PATCH 2/2] test-lib.sh: Dynamic test for the prerequisite SANITY Torsten Bögershausen
2015-01-27 19:53 ` Chris Packham
2015-01-27 22:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-28  8:28   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-01-28 17:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-28 19:19       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-01-28 20:38         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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