Merge branch 'jk/sanity' into maint

The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after
running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it
is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as
a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good
heuristics.  The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to
check what they really require.

* jk/sanity:
  test-lib.sh: set prerequisite SANITY by testing what we really need
  tests: correct misuses of POSIXPERM
  t/lib-httpd: switch SANITY check for NOT_ROOT

4 files changed, 42 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/t/lib-httpd.sh b/t/lib-httpd.sh
index fd53b57187..d154d1ed1d 100644
--- a/t/lib-httpd.sh
+++ b/t/lib-httpd.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ then
 	test_done
 fi
 
-if ! test_have_prereq SANITY; then
+if ! test_have_prereq NOT_ROOT; then
 	test_skip_or_die $GIT_TEST_HTTPD \
 		"Cannot run httpd tests as root"
 fi
diff --git a/t/t0061-run-command.sh b/t/t0061-run-command.sh
index 17e969df60..9acf628726 100755
--- a/t/t0061-run-command.sh
+++ b/t/t0061-run-command.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ test_expect_success POSIXPERM 'run_command reports EACCES' '
 	grep "fatal: cannot exec.*hello.sh" err
 '
 
-test_expect_success POSIXPERM 'unreadable directory in PATH' '
+test_expect_success POSIXPERM,SANITY 'unreadable directory in PATH' '
 	mkdir local-command &&
 	test_when_finished "chmod u+rwx local-command && rm -fr local-command" &&
 	git config alias.nitfol "!echo frotz" &&
diff --git a/t/t1509-root-worktree.sh b/t/t1509-root-worktree.sh
index 335420fd87..b6977d4b39 100755
--- a/t/t1509-root-worktree.sh
+++ b/t/t1509-root-worktree.sh
@@ -98,8 +98,16 @@ test_foobar_foobar() {
 	'
 }
 
-if ! test_have_prereq POSIXPERM || ! [ -w / ]; then
-	skip_all="Dangerous test skipped. Read this test if you want to execute it"
+if ! test -w /
+then
+	skip_all="Test requiring writable / skipped. Read this test if you want to run it"
+	test_done
+fi
+
+if  test -e /refs || test -e /objects || test -e /info || test -e /hooks ||
+    test -e /.git || test -e /foo || test -e /me
+then
+	skip_all="Skip test that clobbers existing files in /"
 	test_done
 fi
 
@@ -108,8 +116,9 @@ if [ "$IKNOWWHATIAMDOING" != "YES" ]; then
 	test_done
 fi
 
-if [ "$UID" = 0 ]; then
-	skip_all="No you can't run this with root"
+if ! test_have_prereq NOT_ROOT
+then
+	skip_all="No you can't run this as root"
 	test_done
 fi
 
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index bb1402de94..c09677802c 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -1031,9 +1031,33 @@ test_lazy_prereq USR_BIN_TIME '
 	test -x /usr/bin/time
 '
 
-# When the tests are run as root, permission tests will report that
-# things are writable when they shouldn't be.
-test -w / || test_set_prereq SANITY
+test_lazy_prereq NOT_ROOT '
+	uid=$(id -u) &&
+	test "$uid" != 0
+'
+
+# On a filesystem that lacks SANITY, a file can be deleted even if
+# the containing directory doesn't have write permissions, or a file
+# can be accessed even if the containing directory doesn't have read
+# or execute permissions, causing our tests that validate that Git
+# works sensibly in such situations.
+test_lazy_prereq SANITY '
+	mkdir SANETESTD.1 SANETESTD.2 &&
+
+	chmod +w SANETESTD.1 SANETESTD.2 &&
+	>SANETESTD.1/x 2>SANETESTD.2/x &&
+	chmod -w SANETESTD.1 &&
+	chmod -rx SANETESTD.2 ||
+	error "bug in test sript: cannot prepare SANETESTD"
+
+	! rm SANETESTD.1/x && ! test -f SANETESTD.2/x
+	status=$?
+
+	chmod +rwx SANETESTD.1 SANETESTD.2 &&
+	rm -rf SANETESTD.1 SANETESTD.2 ||
+	error "bug in test sript: cannot clean SANETESTD"
+	return $status
+'
 
 GIT_UNZIP=${GIT_UNZIP:-unzip}
 test_lazy_prereq UNZIP '