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author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2021-07-30 18:18:14 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-07-30 10:18:27 -0700 |
commit | 482e1488a9b549cbf7466f4ee5396f93bb4588d6 (patch) | |
tree | afadb2266db0663f43774c5548fcd094d1b831a2 /Documentation/gitfaq.txt | |
parent | Git 2.32 (diff) | |
download | tgif-482e1488a9b549cbf7466f4ee5396f93bb4588d6.tar.xz |
t0001: fix broken not-quite getcwd(3) test in bed67874e2
With a54e938e5b (strbuf: support long paths w/o read rights in
strbuf_getcwd() on FreeBSD, 2017-03-26) we had t0001 break on systems
like OpenBSD and AIX whose getcwd(3) has standard (but not like glibc
et al) behavior.
This was partially fixed in bed67874e2 (t0001: skip test with
restrictive permissions if getpwd(3) respects them, 2017-08-07).
The problem with that fix is that while its analysis of the problem is
correct, it doesn't actually call getcwd(3), instead it invokes "pwd
-P". There is no guarantee that "pwd -P" is going to call getcwd(3),
as opposed to e.g. being a shell built-in.
On AIX under both bash and ksh this test breaks because "pwd -P" will
happily display the current working directory, but getcwd(3) called by
the "git init" we're testing here will fail to get it.
I checked whether clobbering the $PWD environment variable would
affect it, and it didn't. Presumably these shells keep track of their
working directory internally.
There's possible follow-up work here in teaching strbuf_getcwd() to
get the working directory with whatever method "pwd" uses on these
platforms. See [1] for a discussion of that, but let's take the easy
way out here and just skip these tests by fixing the
GETCWD_IGNORES_PERMS prerequisite to match the limitations of
strbuf_getcwd().
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/b650bef5-d739-d98d-e9f1-fa292b6ce982@web.de/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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