Hi Bruno, On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Such convention concerning the meaning of EOPNOTSUPP was also stated > > in The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 > > IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition > > (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/functions/lchown.html); > > however, the EOPNOTSUPP case is removed in Issue 7, 2018 Edition > > (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lchown.html). > > The fact that it has been removed from the later revision of the standard > means that implementations have now more freedom regarding the errno > value that they return in this case. My guess actually was that the standard now requires that there is no such kind of failure at all, and this operation has always to be implemented in conforming OSes. But I don't want to make this claim. > > And if ENOSYS is raised for a > > symlink, but not for a directory, this would be against the expected > > behavior and should make the test fail. > > You claim "should", but I don't want to make the test fail when it earlier > succeeded; and you have not tested this on the various platforms. As > pointed out above, various errno values should be acceptable. > > I've pushed this instead: I have no objections. Thank you! > 2018-12-19 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> > > lchown tests: Be more permissive regarding errno values. > Reported by Ivan Zakharyaschev <i...@altlinux.org>. > * tests/test-lchown.h (test_lchown): Recognize EOPNOTSUPP as an > alternative to ENOSYS. > * modules/lchown-tests (Depends-on): Add 'errno'. > * modules/fchownat-tests (Depends-on): Likewise. > > diff --git a/modules/fchownat-tests b/modules/fchownat-tests > index 81adf7f..e5fb783 100644 > --- a/modules/fchownat-tests > +++ b/modules/fchownat-tests > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tests/signature.h > tests/macros.h > > Depends-on: > +errno > ignore-value > intprops > mgetgroups > diff --git a/modules/lchown-tests b/modules/lchown-tests > index c5bba89..42b9460 100644 > --- a/modules/lchown-tests > +++ b/modules/lchown-tests > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ tests/signature.h > tests/macros.h > > Depends-on: > +errno > ignore-value > intprops > mgetgroups > diff --git a/tests/test-lchown.h b/tests/test-lchown.h > index bc10a50..8bf79b1 100644 > --- a/tests/test-lchown.h > +++ b/tests/test-lchown.h > @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ test_lchown (int (*func) (char const *, uid_t, gid_t), > bool print) > return 77; > } > result = func (BASE "dir/link2", -1, -1); > - if (result == -1 && errno == ENOSYS) > + if (result == -1 && (errno == ENOSYS || errno == EOPNOTSUPP)) > { > ASSERT (unlink (BASE "dir/file") == 0); > ASSERT (unlink (BASE "dir/link2") == 0); >
