Random follow-up on this: in message/patch
76b6216281e3463821e650495f3090c677905f73.1646041236.git.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx
I propose a fix to this issue. If accepted, that fix (and related
changes to rely
more heavily on chmtime in t7063) will cause *this* change to cause test
failures.
If that patch is accepted, this commit will simply need to be dropped
as far as I understand.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 9:57 PM Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Teach `test-tool.exe chmtime` to ignore errors when setting the mtime
> on a directory on Windows.
>
> NEEDSWORK: The Windows version of `utime()` (aka `mingw_utime()`) does
> not properly handle directories because it uses `_wopen()`. It should
> be converted to using `CreateFileW()` and backup semantics at a minimum.
> Since I'm already in the middle of a large patch series, I did not want
> to destabilize other callers of `utime()` right now. The problem has
> only been observed in the t/perf/p7519 test when the test repo contains
> an empty directory on disk.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> t/helper/test-chmtime.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/t/helper/test-chmtime.c b/t/helper/test-chmtime.c
> index 524b55ca496..dc28890a183 100644
> --- a/t/helper/test-chmtime.c
> +++ b/t/helper/test-chmtime.c
> @@ -134,6 +134,21 @@ int cmd__chmtime(int argc, const char **argv)
> }
>
> if (utb.modtime != sb.st_mtime && utime(argv[i], &utb) < 0) {
> +#ifdef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE
> + if (S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode)) {
> + /*
> + * NEEDSWORK: The Windows version of `utime()`
> + * (aka `mingw_utime()`) does not correctly
> + * handle directory arguments, since it uses
> + * `_wopen()`. Ignore it for now since this
> + * is just a test.
> + */
> + fprintf(stderr,
> + ("Failed to modify time on directory %s. "
> + "Skipping\n"), argv[i]);
> + continue;
> + }
> +#endif
> fprintf(stderr, "Failed to modify time on %s: %s\n",
> argv[i], strerror(errno));
> return 1;
> --
> gitgitgadget
>
