In the 2.46.0 test suite on NonStop I'm getting the following surprise error: expecting success of 0018.6 'advice should be printed when GIT_ADVICE is set to true': q_to_tab >expect <<-\EOF && On branch trunk No commits yet Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) QREADME nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) EOF test_when_finished "rm -fr advice-test" && git init advice-test && ( cd advice-test && >README && GIT_ADVICE=true git status ) >actual && cat actual > /tmp/actual && test_cmp expect actual Initialized empty Git repository in /home/randall/git-clar/t/trash directory.t0018-advice/advice-test/.git/ ./test-lib.sh: line 1071: /tmp/actual: Permission denied not ok 6 - advice should be printed when GIT_ADVICE is set to true This is the first I'm seeing a failure I'm seeing of this kind. We should be using randomized temp locations, not fixed. What is going on is that our main CI system runs under one user id while I was running another test under my own user. Our /tmp is configured so that users who create files have exclusive access to those files, regardless of security so /tmp/actual in this case can only be used in one run by one user. What we should be doing is probably generating /tmp/actual.XXXXXXX (randomized) or using actual in the trash directory as normal. In any event, t0018 should be cleaning up and removing /tmp/actual when done. I would suggest doing something like this as a start: diff --git a/t/t0018-advice.sh b/t/t0018-advice.sh index 29306b367c..1676a1a31d 100755 --- a/t/t0018-advice.sh +++ b/t/t0018-advice.sh @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ test_expect_success 'advice should be printed when GIT_ADVICE is set to true' ' GIT_ADVICE=true git status ) >actual && cat actual > /tmp/actual && - test_cmp expect actual + test_cmp expect actual && + rm /tmp/actual ' And then, as a real fix: diff --git a/t/t0018-advice.sh b/t/t0018-advice.sh index 29306b367c..deba8a1d91 100755 --- a/t/t0018-advice.sh +++ b/t/t0018-advice.sh @@ -96,8 +96,10 @@ test_expect_success 'advice should be printed when GIT_ADVICE is set to true' ' >README && GIT_ADVICE=true git status ) >actual && - cat actual > /tmp/actual && - test_cmp expect actual + ACTUAL=/tmp/actual.$RANDOM && + cat actual > $ACTUAL && + test_cmp expect $ACTUAL && + rm $ACTUAL ' Regards, Randall