Subject: Re: bug#30327: 27.0.50; Failures in files-tests.el on macOS

From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 23:04:41 +0000

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 11:03:15PM +0100, Michael Albinus wrote:
> My crystal ball tells me, that your temporary-file-directory is located
> on a symlinked directory.
> 
> Does the following patch cures it?

Yes, thank you, that fixes one. Here is a bit more information on the
other:

F files-tests-file-name-non-special-directory-files-and-attributes
    (ert-test-failed
     ((should
       (equal
	(directory-files-and-attributes nospecial-dir)
	(directory-files-and-attributes tmpdir)))
      :form
      (equal
       (("." t 2 501 20
	 (23156 60751 10790 323000)
	 (23156 60751 10688 536000)
	 (23156 60751 10688 536000)
	 64 "drwx------" ...)
	(".." t 187 501 20
	 (23156 60750 989630 970000)
	 (23156 60751 10697 474000)
	 (23156 60751 10697 474000)
	 5984 "drwx------" ...))
       (("." t 2 501 20
	 (23156 60751 10850 531000)
	 (23156 60751 10688 536000)
	 (23156 60751 10688 536000)
	 64 "drwx------" ...)
	(".." t 187 501 20
	 (23156 60750 989630 970000)
	 (23156 60751 10697 474000)
	 (23156 60751 10697 474000)
	 5984 "drwx------" ...)))
      :value nil :explanation
      (list-elt 0
		(list-elt 5
			  (list-elt 2
				    (different-atoms ... ...))))))

I don’t have the first clue what it means...
-- 
Alan Third