Thread: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Change TAP test framework to not rely on having a chmod executab

On 6/19/15 10:52 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Change TAP test framework to not rely on having a chmod executable.
>
> This might not work at all on Windows, and is not ever efficient.
>
> Michael Paquier

I came across this on an unrelated mission and noticed it was
unnecessarily complicated.  How about this patch instead?


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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 6/19/15 10:52 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Change TAP test framework to not rely on having a chmod executable.
>>
>> This might not work at all on Windows, and is not ever efficient.
>>
>> Michael Paquier
>
> I came across this on an unrelated mission and noticed it was
> unnecessarily complicated.  How about this patch instead?

I didn't know this one... Looking at the docs this would visibly work
at least down to 5.8.8, the docs saying that a list of files can be
passed to chmod:
http://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.8/functions/chmod.html
-- 
Michael