Re: [PATCH] t7063: work around FreeBSD's lazy mtime update feature

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 02:04:44PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Torstem Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> >> the term FREEBSD may be too generic to point out a single feature
> >> in an OS distributution.
> >> Following your investigations, it may even be possible that
> >> other systems adapt this "feature"?
> >>
> >> How about
> >> LAZY_DIR_MTIME_UPDATE
> >> (or similar)
> >
> > This feature was added in 1998, so yes there's a chance it has spread
> > to a few fbsd derivatives (not sure if openbsd or netbsd is close
> > enough and they ever exchange changes). But I'd rather wait for the
> > second OS to expose the same feature before renaming it.
> 
> I think a name based on the observed behaviour ("feature") would be
> more appropriate because I'd be more worried about us finding other
> glitches we see (initially) only on FBSD.  People who need to adjust
> tests that use the same FBSD prereq would have to wonder which
> prereq-skip is due to which glitch.

OK how about this squashed in? The name was taken from fbsd definition
IN_LAZYMOD.

Off topic. Since I found this macro defined twice, in ext2 and ufs,
but not in zfs (found its source!), I assume zfs does not have this
particular feature (but I didn't test it). Untracked cache may be more
effecient there.

-- 8< --
diff --git a/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh b/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh
index 08fc586..8bb048a 100755
--- a/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh
+++ b/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ test_expect_success 'create/modify files, some of which are gitignored' '
 	rm base
 '
 
-test_expect_success FREEBSD 'Work around lazy mtime update' '
+test_expect_success LAZYMOD 'Work around lazy mtime update' '
 	ls -ld . >/dev/null
 '
 
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 3c730a2..1fc5266 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ case $(uname -s) in
 	test_set_prereq GREP_STRIPS_CR
 	;;
 *FreeBSD*)
-	test_set_prereq FREEBSD
+	test_set_prereq LAZYMOD
 	test_set_prereq POSIXPERM
 	test_set_prereq BSLASHPSPEC
 	test_set_prereq EXECKEEPSPID
-- 8< --

--
Duy