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Diffstat (limited to 'test/ruby/test_process.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | test/ruby/test_process.rb | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_process.rb b/test/ruby/test_process.rb index ec59c8eb30..bb34e22454 100644 --- a/test/ruby/test_process.rb +++ b/test/ruby/test_process.rb @@ -1644,7 +1644,15 @@ class TestProcess < Test::Unit::TestCase assert_nothing_raised(feature6975) do begin g = IO.popen([RUBY, "-e", "print Process.gid", gid: group], &:read) - assert_equal(gid, g, feature6975) + # AIX allows a non-root process to setgid to its supplementary group, + # while other UNIXes do not. (This might be AIX's violation of the POSIX standard.) + # However, Ruby does not allow a setgid'ed Ruby process to use the -e option. + # As a result, the Ruby process invoked by "IO.popen([RUBY, "-e", ..." above fails + # with a message like "no -e allowed while running setgid (SecurityError)" to stderr, + # the exis status is set to 1, and the variable "g" is set to an empty string. + # To conclude, on AIX, if the "gid" variable is a supplementary group, + # the assert_equal next can fail, so skip it. + assert_equal(gid, g, feature6975) unless $?.exitstatus == 1 && /aix/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM && gid != Process.gid rescue Errno::EPERM, NotImplementedError end end |