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| author | Gerben Wierda <G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl> | 1998-11-20 20:39:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1998-11-22 11:42:59 +0000 |
| commit | 846f25a3508eb6a488aff23d772d9cd4768661b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2cdff9ddbbe20532f7a07d99391701c5cb2c877f /t/op/filetest.t | |
| parent | 468541a8c6a923aaa6f4473c12876600d43e57de (diff) | |
| download | perl-846f25a3508eb6a488aff23d772d9cd4768661b5.tar.gz | |
Permission testing is tricky when we have too much power.
Problem reported in
Subject: Test results for perl5.005_53 under NEXTSTEP 3.3 (intel)
To: perlbug@perl.com
Message-ID: <MLIST_9811201533.AA22148@AWT.nl>
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2263
Diffstat (limited to 't/op/filetest.t')
| -rw-r--r-- | t/op/filetest.t | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/t/op/filetest.t b/t/op/filetest.t index 13c5917adc..9228b5730b 100644 --- a/t/op/filetest.t +++ b/t/op/filetest.t @@ -26,19 +26,30 @@ print "ok 5\n"; # make sure TEST is r-x eval { chmod 0555, 'TEST' }; -if ($@) { - print "#[$@]\nok 6 # skipped\n"; +$bad_chmod = $@; + +$oldeuid = $>; # root can read and write anything +eval '$> = 1'; # so switch uid (may not be implemented) + +print "# oldeuid = $oldeuid, euid = $>\n"; + +if ($bad_chmod) { + print "#[$@]\nok 6 #skipped\n"; } else { - print "not " if -w 'TEST'; - print "ok 6\n"; + print "not " if -w 'TEST'; + print "ok 6\n"; } -# Scripts are not -x everywhere. +# Scripts are not -x everywhere so cannot test that. print "not " unless -r 'op'; print "ok 7\n"; +eval '$> = $oldeuid'; # switch uid back (may not be implemented) + +# this would fail for the euid 1 +# (unless we have unpacked the source code as uid 1...) print "not " unless -w 'op'; print "ok 8\n"; |