Re: [Sbcl-devel] FreeBSD port forbidden due to sb-posix test mkdir.error.3

[Brian M. <bma...@cs...>]

On Dec 31, 2001, at 10:37 PM, Tim Daly Jr. wrote:

> From staring at my IRC client too long, I have the impression that the
> directory was never meant to be created.  That test wasn't designed to
> be run as root.  Can you think of an alternative directory, which root
> would fail to create on FreeBSD systems?  For example, on my linux
> system, root will fail to create /proc/foo.

That's not a general solution, though: / is writable to users of group 
"admin" on OS X, which is probably who is building SBCL. The "right" 
solution is to do a sequence of tests which make a directory in /tmp, 
chmod 000 it, attempt to make a directory inside of the original, and 
delete the directory.
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Brian Mastenbrook
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