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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_posix.py | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-12-09-15-23-28.bpo-31904.ghj38d.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py index cd18a4972f..588c86994b 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py @@ -724,11 +724,20 @@ class PosixTester(unittest.TestCase): chown_func(first_param, uid, -1) check_stat(uid, gid) - if uid == 0: + if sys.platform == "vxworks": + # On VxWorks, root user id is 1 and 0 means no login user: + # both are super users. + is_root = (uid in (0, 1)) + else: + is_root = (uid == 0) + if is_root: # Try an amusingly large uid/gid to make sure we handle # large unsigned values. (chown lets you use any # uid/gid you like, even if they aren't defined.) # + # On VxWorks uid_t is defined as unsigned short. A big + # value greater than 65535 will result in underflow error. + # # This problem keeps coming up: # http://bugs.python.org/issue1747858 # http://bugs.python.org/issue4591 @@ -738,7 +747,7 @@ class PosixTester(unittest.TestCase): # This part of the test only runs when run as root. # Only scary people run their tests as root. - big_value = 2**31 + big_value = (2**31 if sys.platform != "vxworks" else 2**15) chown_func(first_param, big_value, big_value) check_stat(big_value, big_value) chown_func(first_param, -1, -1) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-12-09-15-23-28.bpo-31904.ghj38d.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-12-09-15-23-28.bpo-31904.ghj38d.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..654562bf40 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-12-09-15-23-28.bpo-31904.ghj38d.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Skip some tests in _test_all_chown_common() on VxWorks. |