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authorJosh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>2020-05-01 16:50:10 -0700
committerJosh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>2020-05-01 16:50:10 -0700
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parent7f65393b9abf5e70d0b9a8080558f17c5625bd40 (diff)
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Use a non-existent test path instead of clobbering /dev/null
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-rw-r--r--src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.rs10
-rw-r--r--src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.stderr2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.rs b/src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.rs
index 8af17742850..30779fc65c0 100644
--- a/src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.rs
+++ b/src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,12 @@
 //
 // An attempt to `-o` into a directory we cannot write into should indeed
 // be an error; but not an ICE.
+//
+// However, some folks run tests as root, which can write `/dev/` and end
+// up clobbering `/dev/null`. Instead we'll use a non-existent path, which
+// also used to ICE, but even root can't magically write there.
 
-// compile-flags: -o /dev/null
+// compile-flags: -o /does-not-exist/output
 
 // The error-pattern check occurs *before* normalization, and the error patterns
 // are wildly different between build environments. So this is a cop-out (and we
@@ -15,10 +19,10 @@
 // error-pattern: error
 
 // On Mac OS X, we get an error like the below
-// normalize-stderr-test "failed to write bytecode to /dev/null.non_ice_error_on_worker_io_fail.*" -> "io error modifying /dev/"
+// normalize-stderr-test "failed to write bytecode to /does-not-exist/output.non_ice_error_on_worker_io_fail.*" -> "io error modifying /does-not-exist/"
 
 // On Linux, we get an error like the below
-// normalize-stderr-test "couldn't create a temp dir.*" -> "io error modifying /dev/"
+// normalize-stderr-test "couldn't create a temp dir.*" -> "io error modifying /does-not-exist/"
 
 // ignore-tidy-linelength
 // ignore-windows - this is a unix-specific test
diff --git a/src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.stderr b/src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.stderr
index f732abc52b7..edadecf273a 100644
--- a/src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.stderr
+++ b/src/test/ui/non-ice-error-on-worker-io-fail.stderr
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 warning: ignoring --out-dir flag due to -o flag
 
-error: io error modifying /dev/
+error: io error modifying /does-not-exist/
 
 error: aborting due to previous error; 1 warning emitted