test -w bug

Philip S. Brown pbrown01@harris.com
Mon Sep 28 13:35:00 GMT 1998


There seems to be a problem with test.  If you create a file, have it open for writing, and run test -w on it, it reports that the file cannot be written to.  This bug is causing configure scripts to take forever to run because the test failure causes configure to not use config.cache.

Windows NT 4.0
Cygnus GNU B19 with Sergei's coolview (not latest)

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