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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tests/misc/Makefile.am | 1 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent | 56 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2007-02-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Test for today's gnulib/lib/getcwd.c fix affecting pwd and readlink + * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. + * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: New file. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Ad pwd-unreadable-parent. + 2007-02-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> * NEWS: Document fix for cp --preserve=mode. @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- a reasonable diagnostic. Before, it would print this: "mv: cannot remove `/etc/passwd': Not a directory". + pwd and "readlink -e ." no longer fail unnecessarily when a parent + directory is unreadable. + "rm -rf /etc/passwd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic. Before it would print nothing. diff --git a/tests/misc/Makefile.am b/tests/misc/Makefile.am index c4c279d67..145afbe0c 100644 --- a/tests/misc/Makefile.am +++ b/tests/misc/Makefile.am @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \ # will execute the test script rather than the standard utility. TESTS = \ + pwd-unreadable-parent \ cut \ wc-files0-from \ wc-files0 \ diff --git a/tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent b/tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent new file mode 100755 index 000000000..f84627ec4 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# Ensure that pwd and "readlink -e ." work even when a parent directory +# is unreadable. Perform this test only on systems with a usable getcwd +# function that has this capability. + +# Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. + +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. + +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA +# 02110-1301, USA. + +if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then + set -x + pwd --version + readlink --version +fi + +pwd=`pwd` +t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$ +trap 'status=$?; cd "$pwd" && chmod -R u+rwx $t0 && rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0 +trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15 + +framework_failure=0 +mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1 +cd $tmp || framework_failure=1 + +mkdir -p a/b || framework_failure=1 +cd a/b || framework_failure=1 +chmod a=x .. || framework_failure=1 + +if test $framework_failure = 1; then + echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2 + (exit 1); exit 1 +fi + +pwd_exe=$pwd/../../src/pwd + +fail=0 +$pwd_exe > exp || fail=1 +readlink -ev . > out || fail=1 + +cmp out exp || fail=1 +test $fail = 1 && diff out exp 2> /dev/null + +(exit $fail); exit $fail |