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Re: FilePermission symlink handling test

Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> Gary Benson wrote:

> > My last commit adds a test to check FilePermission's handling of
> > symbolic links.  Both proprietary JVMs I tried passed this test,
> > but Classpath does not.  Now to figure out how to fix this...
> 
> I'm not happy with non-portable Runtime.exec() invocations in
> tests. Is there a better way to deal with this?

As far as I know Java has nothing to do with symlinks :(

> At the very least the test should be marked in some way.

Is there a way to detect the underlying OS so the test can be
skipped on non-POSIX platforms?

Cheers,
Gary
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