Code review comment for lp:~parthm/bzr/262450

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

On 18 February 2010 00:18, Parth Malwankar <email address hidden> wrote:
> Based on Martins comments:
>
>>So probably the permissions stuff just can't work like this on Windows, in which case we should probably:
>> 1- make that test requireFeature something unixy; probably it would be good to declare a new Feature for unix permissions and just say it exists if os.platform=posix
>
> Added PosixOSFeature and the permissions test case now requireFeatures this.

I think, to be a bit pedantic, the actual check is for unix
permissions; this could conceivably pass under cygwin and fail on unix
with a vfat filesystem.

>> 2- check the actual runtime code passes on windows (even if it does nothing)
>
> Ran tests on Window. It would be good if someone could verify this again.

I'll check

>> 3- file a followon bug about inheriting acls on windows
>
> Filed bug #523187 for Windows

thanks
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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

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