On 9/19/05, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I enable hard links on VMS, it exposed that the t/io/fs.t is not > testing what the comments indicate that it is testing. > > The correct test would be to see if the $mode of the third link matched > the $mode for the original file. > > What the test is actually doing is testing to see if the umask function > is behaving according to the UNIX definition. > > With VMS, setting the umask and related behaviors into the UNIX mode is > not the default behavior. > > I need to make a change in this routine to get it to pass on VMS when > hard links support is built in to Perl, it is skipped otherwise. > > One option is to fix the test to actually test what it claims to be > testing. This could affect other platforms, but really should not.
I'd like to have a patch for that. > Now should the test be testing for a UNIX compliant umask()? And since > VMS by default is not set to UNIX compliant, it would need to know when > that pass would be expected to pass, or to when to put VMS into that mode. And, moreover, and optionnally, we could add a new test for testing umask() (there's no such test, at a first glance.) But of course it would make sense to skip it on non-UNIX platforms, including VMS.
