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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2011-11-28 14:38:19 +0100
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2011-11-28 14:38:19 +0100
commitdb76ac1fad6b44130103179944e934c13a365e5f (patch)
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Merge branch 'bjorn/fix-failing-tests'
* bjorn/fix-failing-tests: erlc_SUITE:arg_overflow/1: Lower number of options for MacOS X Lion tar_SUITE: Don't do symlink tests on Windows erlc_SUITE: Fix failing compile_mib/1 test case
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib')
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl27
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl b/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl
index 9ad3936928..65ccdcb7a8 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ symlinks(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
?line ok = file:make_dir(Dir),
?line ABadSymlink = filename:join(Dir, "bad_symlink"),
?line PointsTo = "/a/definitely/non_existing/path",
- ?line Res = case file:make_symlink("/a/definitely/non_existing/path", ABadSymlink) of
+ ?line Res = case make_symlink("/a/definitely/non_existing/path", ABadSymlink) of
{error, enotsup} ->
{skip, "Symbolic links not supported on this platform"};
ok ->
@@ -544,7 +544,30 @@ symlinks(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
%% Clean up.
?line delete_files([Dir]),
Res.
-
+
+make_symlink(Path, Link) ->
+ case os:type() of
+ {win32,_} ->
+ %% Symlinks on Windows have two problems:
+ %% 1) file:read_link_info/1 cannot read out the target
+ %% of the symlink if the target does not exist.
+ %% That is possible (but not easy) to fix in the
+ %% efile driver.
+ %%
+ %% 2) Symlinks to files and directories are different
+ %% creatures. If the target is not existing, the
+ %% symlink will be created to be of the file-pointing
+ %% type. That can be partially worked around in erl_tar
+ %% by creating all symlinks when the end of the tar
+ %% file has been reached.
+ %%
+ %% But for now, pretend that there are no symlinks on
+ %% Windows.
+ {error, enotsup};
+ _ ->
+ file:make_symlink(Path, Link)
+ end.
+
symlinks(Dir, BadSymlink, PointsTo) ->
?line Tar = filename:join(Dir, "symlink.tar"),
?line DerefTar = filename:join(Dir, "dereference.tar"),