Re: new snapshot [Re: coreutils 6.9.92 fail to configure on *bsd

[Jim Meyering]

Elias Pipping <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:54:58PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Elias Pipping <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> >   # ls -ld . f
>> >   drwxr-xr-x  3 pipping  staff  11186 Jan 26 12:29 .
>> >   -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel      2 Jan 26 12:29 f
>> >   # ./cp f g
>> >   # ls -l g
>> >   -rw-r--r--  1 root  staff  2 Jan 26 12:29 g
>>
>> That suggests that the bogus group is set by cp's open call.  I suspect
>> some sort of ACL mechanism that specifies "staff" as the default group --
>> or maybe some rule says "inherit group from parent directory".
>
> The latter seems to be the case.

It does, indeed.
Please see if this makes the test pass:

        Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1)
        * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".".
        Reported by Elias Pipping.

diff --git a/tests/cp/preserve-gid b/tests/cp/preserve-gid
index 5f2c050..9537dc0 100755
--- a/tests/cp/preserve-gid
+++ b/tests/cp/preserve-gid
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Verify that cp -p preserves GID when it is possible.

-# Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 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
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ if test -z "$nameless_uid" \
   skip_test_ "couldn't find a nameless UID or GID"
 fi

-chown "+$nameless_uid" .
+chown "+$nameless_uid:+0" .

 create a0 0 0
 create b0 "$nameless_uid" "$nameless_gid1"