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

From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 23:57:10 +0000

Alan Third <[email-masked]> schrieb am Sa., 3. Feb. 2018 um 00:05 Uhr:

> 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...
>

The differing element is the last access time. This isn't surprising given
that reading the directory accesses it. Probably the test should simply
ignore the fifth element (the access time).