2008-01-08 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+ parent-perm: avoid a bizarre test failure.
+ * tests/cp/parent-perm: Accommodate the situation in which
+ chmod ("dir", 02755) returns 0 yet fails to set the S_ISGID bit.
+
Remove uses of now-undefined Makefile variable.
* src/Makefile.am (dir_LDADD, ls_LDADD, vdir_LDADD): Remove uses
of no-longer-defined variable, $(LIB_ACL_TRIVIAL).
# Ensure that permissions on just-created directory, e/a/,
# are the same as those on original, a/.
-test $(stat --printf %A a) = $(stat --printf %A e/a) || fail=1
+
+# The sed filter maps any 's' from an inherited set-GID bit
+# to the usual 'x'. Otherwise, under unusual circumstances, this
+# test would fail with e.g., drwxr-sr-x != drwxr-xr-x .
+# For reference, the unusual circumstances is: build dir is set-gid,
+# so "a/" inherits that. However, when the user does not belong to
+# the group of the build directory, chmod ("a/e", 02755) returns 0,
+# yet fails to set the S_ISGID bit.
+test $(stat --printf %A a|sed s/s/x/g) = $(stat --printf %A e/a|sed s/s/x/g) ||
+ fail=1
(exit $fail); exit $fail