regress: test custom symlink permissions on FreeBSD and macOS

diff --git a/regress/tests/weird-files-test b/regress/tests/weird-files-test
index 8bd55e63fc5ce5a6e7fdc5cacc711d6aea43257f..ba57db9f806f6e058acccc331184367b28ffd0b3 100755 (executable)
--- a/regress/tests/weird-files-test
+++ b/regress/tests/weird-files-test
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ cd weird-files
 perl socket.pl
 cd ..
 
+# some system like MacOS & FreeBSD have a lchmod() system call
+# and the chmod command has a "-h" option to not follow the symlink
+# lets try to use the "-h" option and ignore the error
+if ! chmod -l 751 "${cwd}/weird-files"/soft-file2 ; then
+   true # ignore the error
+fi
+
 start_test
 
 cat <<END_OF_DATA >tmp/bconcmds