[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue #11956: Skip test_import.test_unwritable_directory on FreeBSD when run as

[Ned Deily]

In article <E1RB8co-0006FZ-U7 at dinsdale.python.org>,
 charles-francois.natali <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7697223df6df
> changeset:   72670:7697223df6df
> branch:      3.2
> parent:      72658:2484b2b8876e
> user:        Charles-Fran?ssois Natali <neologix at free.fr>
> date:        Tue Oct 04 19:17:26 2011 +0200
> summary:
>   Issue #11956: Skip test_import.test_unwritable_directory on FreeBSD when 
>   run as
> root (directory permissions are ignored).

The same directory permission semantics apply to other (all?) 
BSD-derived systems, not just FreeBSD.  For example, the test still 
fails in the same way on OS X when run via sudo.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org