Elias Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:54:58PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Elias Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > # ls -ld . f
>> > drwxr-xr-x 3 pipping staff 11186 Jan 26 12:29 .
>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2 Jan 26 12:29 f
>> > # ./cp f g
>> > # ls -l g
>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2 Jan 26 12:29 g
>>
>> That suggests that the bogus group is set by cp's open call. I suspect
>> some sort of ACL mechanism that specifies "staff" as the default group --
>> or maybe some rule says "inherit group from parent directory".
>
> The latter seems to be the case.
It does, indeed.
Please see if this makes the test pass:
Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1)
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".".
Reported by Elias Pipping.
diff --git a/tests/cp/preserve-gid b/tests/cp/preserve-gid
index 5f2c050..9537dc0 100755
--- a/tests/cp/preserve-gid
+++ b/tests/cp/preserve-gid
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Verify that cp -p preserves GID when it is possible.
-# Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ if test -z "$nameless_uid" \
skip_test_ "couldn't find a nameless UID or GID"
fi
-chown "+$nameless_uid" .
+chown "+$nameless_uid:+0" .
create a0 0 0
create b0 "$nameless_uid" "$nameless_gid1"
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