On 5/22/06, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How portable does this need to be? My inclination is not to mess with file permissions in a test suite if you can avoid it.
... For system interaction tests, I prefer to fake failures rather than try
to manufacture them.
All things being equal, its better to test the real code than stub bits out to fake a failure. It brings your tests closer to reality. Sometimes this isn't possible, but with filesystem tests it usually is. The safest thing to do is work inside your t/ directory rather than the system temp directory which you may or may not have permission to use. It may not even exist. You can still use File::Temp for this, just use the DIR option. use File::Temp; my $tempdir = tempdir( DIR => "t" ); This will create a temporary directory inside t/ which you own and you're free to do whatever you want with.
