Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] test-lib.sh: Dynamic test for the prerequisite SANITY

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:38:52 -0800

Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]> 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?