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Diffstat (limited to 'Source/kwsys')
| -rw-r--r-- | Source/kwsys/testSystemTools.cxx | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Source/kwsys/testSystemTools.cxx b/Source/kwsys/testSystemTools.cxx index 670e8dc..aa38aec 100644 --- a/Source/kwsys/testSystemTools.cxx +++ b/Source/kwsys/testSystemTools.cxx @@ -328,7 +328,14 @@ static bool CheckFileOperations() } // While we're at it, check proper TestFileAccess functionality. - if (kwsys::SystemTools::TestFileAccess(testNewFile, + bool do_write_test = true; +#if defined(__linux__) + // If we are running as root on linux ignore this check, as + // root can always write to files + do_write_test = (getuid() != 0); +#endif + if (do_write_test && + kwsys::SystemTools::TestFileAccess(testNewFile, kwsys::TEST_FILE_WRITE)) { std::cerr << "TestFileAccess incorrectly indicated that this is a writable file:" |