Re: [libtool-2.2.2] testsuite on NFS mount on AIX

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 09:29 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 18:40 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> > 
> > * Michael Haubenwallner wrote on Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:59:43PM CEST:
> > > 
> > > when doing the libtool testsuite in some NFS mounted directory on AIX,
> > > the output is full of lines looking like:
> > >         rm: cannot remove directory 
> > > `/nfsmount/libtool-2.2.2/tests/testsuite.dir/25/broken/lib': File exists
> > > 
> > > Although it does not cause any additional test to fail, it's still ugly.
> > 
> > Yep.
> > 
> > > This is because AIX keeps shared libraries in use for some time even if
> > > there are no more programs using it.
> > 
> > Yep, I knew that.
> > 
> > > But this only applies to shared libraries having read (execute?)
> > > permission for 'other'.
> > 
> > Ha!  I wasn't aware of that.  Thank you!
> > 
> > I've confirmed on AIX 5.3 that read permissions are what counts, but it
> > shouldn't hurt removing the others as well.
> > 
> > > So adding an 'umask 0007' (or 0077) early in testsuite.at can help here.
> > 
> > I'd like to avoid giving more permissions if the user set, say, umask
> > 077 before.  Thus let's just remove those for others.  I've applied the
> > patch below and put you in THANKS.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> > +case $host_os in
> > +aix*) umask o-rwx ;;
> 
> As I was not aware of symbolics with umask yet, and being paranoid, I've
> tried that: Unfortunately, it depends on the shell if umask with
> symbolics works: It works with bash as well as AIX' /bin/ksh, while it
> does not work with AIX' /bin/sh, but without any failure notice - it
> just sets umask to 0:
> 
> $ /bin/sh
> sh$ umask
> 0007
> sh$ umask o-rwx; umask
> 0000
> sh$ umask 007; umask
> 0007
> sh$ umask junk; umask
> 0000
> sh$ 

Ohw, sorry - this works for AIX' (5.3) /bin/sh, I've accidentally tested
this on the Solaris box.

> 
> So we want to use the numeric umask here...

So there's no need to use numeric umasks on AIX, sorry!

/haubi/