Re: fix more tests on cygwin

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> In working with PATH problems, I noticed these bugs in the testsuite.  The 
> only
> bad PATH in misc/sort-compress was leftover from when sort attempted to use
> gzip unconditionally.  But since sort now requires --compress, rather than
> assuming gzip is present, that clause of the test was not covering anything
> useful any more; the patch changes the test from fail to pass.
>
> rm/fail-eperm changes from fail to skip when run as an admin user (since
> windows is rather generous with delete rights beyond what the POSIX 
> permissions
> would imply); it will take a bit longer to actually run the test as a non-
> admin, but I'm assuming it will now pass in that case.
>
> misc/pwd-long was interesting.  On cygwin 1.5, it is impossible to create a
> directory with more than 256 bytes in the absolute name.  This fix changes 
> from
> a fail to a skip.  On cygwin 1.7, the name length limitation was lifted, so my
> first round of edits improved from outright failure (inability to find
> cygwin1.dll required by pwd) to 50% chance of failure (some runs passed, but
> some failed due to problems converting $actual to a relative name).  After
> quite some time debugging, I finally discovered what appears to be the 
> culprit -
>  a bug in cygwin's perl.  It looks like perl was built for 32-bit math, but
> cygwin's ino_t is 64-bit.  Depending on what inode was created for the
> temporary dir, $i==$ino sometimes passes, but sometimes ran into overflow
> issues in converting the stat result from a string into a number, such that 
> the
> numeric comparison failed.  Using eq always succeeds, thus working around that
> problem and making the test reliably pass on cygwin 1.7.
>
> OK to apply?
>
>
> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:08:14 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix PATH problems on cygwin
>
> * tests/misc/sort-compress: Remove non-portable over-restriction
> of PATH; besides, commit 3ea177e changed sort to no longer default
> to gzip.
> * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Untaint, rather than clear, PATH.
> * tests/misc/pwd-long: Likewise.  Also skip test if long path
> cannot be created.
> (normalize_to_cwd_relative): Use eq rather than ==, since cygwin
> perl doesn't properly handle 64-bit ino_t numerically.

Thanks.  Looks fine and passed all tests.