Re: [PATCH v2] Fix testcase failure when extended attributes are in use

Deskin Miller [off-list ref] writes:

My patch, on the other hand, is to deal with 'ls' output in case a file has
certain filesystem extended attributes.  These could be e.g. POSIX ACLs, or a
SELinux security context, or perhaps others.  If such an extended attribute is
present, 'ls -l' will print permissions with a '+' appended, e.g.
-rw-r--r--+
Instead of
-rw-r--r--
...
For what it's worth, I've experienced this failure on my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop
with SELinux permissive mode, so it's possible ls behaves slightly differently
on other systems; I've not been able to determine this one way or another.

Is there way to explicitly tell "ls -l" not to do this, I have to wonder?

POSIX.1 says that the file mode written under the -l option is
"%c%s%s%s%c" (where the first %c is for type, three %s are for owner,
group and other perm, and the last %c is "optional alternate access method
flag").  If there is no alternate or additional access control method
associated with the file, the "optional alternate access method flag"
would be a single SP, otherwise it would be a printable character.

If we drop the default ACL from the trash directory like Matt's patch
does, does a file created in there (i.e. the ones we check with /bin/ls)
still have "alternate or additional access control method associated with"
it?

Somehow it feels wrong that you need your patch, but if you do, stripping
only the trailing '+' as your patch does not look sufficient, either.
Shouldn't we be stripping the last letter if the length of actual is
longer than strlen("-rwxrwxrwx"), as any printable can come there?

 t/t1301-shared-repo.sh |   10 ++++++----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git c/t/t1301-shared-repo.sh i/t/t1301-shared-repo.sh
index 2275caa..653362b 100755
--- c/t/t1301-shared-repo.sh
+++ i/t/t1301-shared-repo.sh

@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ test_expect_success 'shared = 0400 (faulty permission u-w)' '
 	test $ret != "0"
 '
 
+modebits () {
+	ls -l "$1" | sed -e 's|^\(..........\).*|\1|'
+}
+
 for u in 002 022
 do
 	test_expect_success "shared=1 does not clear bits preset by umask $u" '

@@ -85,8 +89,7 @@ do
 
 		rm -f .git/info/refs &&
 		git update-server-info &&
-		actual="$(ls -l .git/info/refs)" &&
-		actual=${actual%% *} &&
+		actual="$(modebits .git/info/refs)" &&
 		test "x$actual" = "x-$y" || {
 			ls -lt .git/info
 			false

@@ -98,8 +101,7 @@ do
 
 		rm -f .git/info/refs &&
 		git update-server-info &&
-		actual="$(ls -l .git/info/refs)" &&
-		actual=${actual%% *} &&
+		actual="$(modebits .git/info/refs)" &&
 		test "x$actual" = "x-$x" || {
 			ls -lt .git/info
 			false