[PATCH: perl@16267] make lib/User/pwent.t run on VMS

The enclosed patch allows all 9 of the lib/User/pwent.t tests
to pass on VMS (as opposed to the t/op/pwent.t tests that
might better be addressed by a VMS specific test I have been
working on but have not included here).  Uid's on VMS are
sufficiently from Unix that the test runs with the $< uid rather
than 0 as on Unix and cygwin.  Because of a struct passwd
declaration in vms/vmsish.h we cannot (easily) build
perl with i_pwd='define' (it is possible but not pretty -
the vmsish passwd is much more unixy in its emulation).

diff -ru perl_16267/lib/User/pwent.t perl/lib/User/pwent.t
--- perl_16267/lib/User/pwent.t     Thu Apr 25 12:56:11 2002
+++ perl/lib/User/pwent.t     Wed May  1 10:06:22 2002
@@ -11,13 +11,18 @@
     $haspw = 1 unless $@ && $@ =~ /unimplemented/;
     unless ($haspw) { print "1..0 # Skip: no getpwuid\n"; exit 0 }
     use Config;
-    $haspw = 0 unless $Config{'i_pwd'} eq 'define';
+    # VMS's pwd.h struct passwd conflicts with the one in vmsish.h
+    $haspw = 0 unless ( $Config{'i_pwd'} eq 'define' || $^O eq 'VMS' );
     unless ($haspw) { print "1..0 # Skip: no pwd.h\n"; exit 0 }
 }

 BEGIN {
-    our @pwent = getpwuid 0; # This is the function getpwuid.
-    unless (@pwent) { print "1..0 # Skip: no uid 0\n"; exit 0 }
+    our $uid = 0;
+    # On VMS getpwuid(0) may return [$gid,0] UIC info (which may not exist).
+    # It is better to use the $< uid for testing on VMS instead.
+    if ( $^O eq 'VMS' ) { $uid = $< ; }
+    our @pwent = getpwuid $uid; # This is the function getpwuid.
+    unless (@pwent) { print "1..0 # Skip: no uid $uid\n"; exit 0 }
 }

 print "1..9\n";
@@ -26,10 +31,12 @@

 print "ok 1\n";

-my $pwent = getpwuid 0; # This is the OO getpwuid.
+my $pwent = getpwuid $uid; # This is the OO getpwuid.

-print "not " unless $pwent->uid    == 0 ||
-                    ($^O eq 'cygwin'  && $pwent->uid == 500); # go figure
+my $uid_expect = $uid;
+if ( $^O eq 'cygwin' ) { $uid_expect = 500; } # go figure
+
+print "not " unless $pwent->uid    == $uid_expect ;
 print "ok 2\n";

 print "not " unless $pwent->name   eq $pwent[0];
End of Patch.

Peter Prymmer

• [PATCH: perl@16267] make lib/User/pwent.t run on VMS by PPrymmer
• Re: [PATCH: perl@16267] make lib/User/pwent.t run on VMS by Jarkko Hietaniemi