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

[Andreas F. <as...@bo...>]

On 2004-01-31, Brian Mastenbrook <bma...@cs...> wrote:
> 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.

beaver# mkdir /tmp/foodir
beaver# chmod 000 /tmp/foodir
beaver# mkdir /tmp/foodir/bar
beaver# echo $?
0

seems like the only really safe place to try this as root is on a
readonly mount. I'd say we remove the test.


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Andreas Fuchs, <as...@bo...>, as...@ja..., antifuchs