From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:11:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: *** empty log message ***
X-Git-Tag: v5.92~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0df944db9f7cb39ece3599935c48e4fbc7e1a7c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4bb7e1c90b..096fb93dc4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
-2005-10-20  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+2005-10-22  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
 	* Version 5.92-cvs.
 
+	* tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly: New test, neither run
+	nor distributed via tarballs.
+
+2005-10-20  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
 	* tests/chmod/octal: New file/test, to exercise today's
 	lib/modechange.c fix.
 	* tests/chmod/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add octal.
diff --git a/tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly b/tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..ab55a22a6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# This is just for the record.
+# This test is not run.
+
+# Test for the 2005-10-13 patch to lib/mkdir-p.c that fixed this sort
+# of bug in mkdir:
+#
+#   "mkdir -p /a/b/c" no longer fails merely because a leading prefix
+#   directory (e.g., /a or /a/b) exists on a read-only file system.
+#
+# Demonstrate the problem, as root:
+
+mount='sudo mount'
+
+cd /tmp                                    \
+  && dd if=/dev/zero of=1 bs=8192 count=50 \
+  && dd if=/dev/zero of=2 bs=8192 count=50 \
+  && mkdir -p mnt-ro && mkfs -t ext2 1 && mkfs -t ext2 2 \
+  && $mount -o loop=/dev/loop3 1 mnt-ro    \
+  && mkdir -p mnt-ro/rw                    \
+  && $mount -o remount,ro mnt-ro           \
+  && $mount -o loop=/dev/loop4 2 mnt-ro/rw
+
+mkdir -p mnt-ro/rw/sub || fail=1
+
+# To clean up
+umount /tmp/2
+umount /tmp/1
+rm -rf /tmp/[12]