* tests/chmod/setgid (abs_srcdir): Remove; not used or needed.

Skip this test if "chmod g+s d" silently does nothing.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/tests/chmod/setgid b/tests/chmod/setgid
index 93a2c2e81..67381fe1a 100755
--- a/tests/chmod/setgid
+++ b/tests/chmod/setgid
@@ -17,18 +17,15 @@ trap '(exit $?); exit' 1 2 13 15
 
 framework_failure=0
 
-# Record absolute path of srcdir and cd back to current dir.
-cd $srcdir || framework_failure=1
-abs_srcdir=`pwd`
-cd $pwd || framework_failure=1
-
 mkdir $tmp || framework_failure=1
 cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
 
+test=../../../src/test
+
 umask 0
 mkdir d || framework_failure=1
 
-chmod g+s d 2> /dev/null ||
+chmod g+s d 2> /dev/null && $test -g d ||
   {
     # This is required because on some systems (at least NetBSD 1.4.2A),
     # it may happen that when you create a directory, its group isn't one
@@ -46,6 +43,13 @@ if test $framework_failure = 1; then
   (exit 1); exit 1
 fi
 
+# "chmod g+s d" does nothing on some NFS file systems.
+$test -g d || {
+  echo 1>&2 "$0: cannot create setgid directories," \
+    "so can't run this test"
+  exit 77
+}
+
 fail=0
 
 chmod 755 d