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diff --git a/spec/support/chef_helpers.rb b/spec/support/chef_helpers.rb index f64c14da4d..d0b5ad0bfd 100644 --- a/spec/support/chef_helpers.rb +++ b/spec/support/chef_helpers.rb @@ -84,6 +84,28 @@ def canonicalize_path(path) windows? ? path.tr("/", '\\') : path end +# Makes a temp directory with a canonical path on any platform. +# Only really needed to work around an issue on Windows where +# Ruby's temp library generates paths with short names. +def make_canonical_temp_directory + temp_directory = Dir.mktmpdir + if windows? + # On Windows, temporary file / directory path names may have shortened + # subdirectory names due to reliance on the TMP and TEMP environment variables + # in some Windows APIs and duplicated logic in Ruby's temp file implementation. + # To work around this in the unit test context, we obtain the long (canonical) + # path name via a Windows system call so that this path name can be used + # in expectations that assume the ability to canonically name paths in comparisons. + # Note that this was not an issue prior to Ruby 2.2 -- with Ruby 2.2, + # some Chef code started to use long file names, while Ruby's temp file implementation + # continued to return the shortened names -- this would cause these particular tests to + # fail if the username happened to be longer than 8 characters. + Chef::ReservedNames::Win32::File.get_long_path_name(temp_directory) + else + temp_directory + end +end + # Check if a cmd exists on the PATH def which(cmd) paths = ENV["PATH"].split(File::PATH_SEPARATOR) + [ "/bin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin", "/usr/sbin" ] |