Bug 440283

Summary:	Modify symlink tests to run on Windows with or without administrator privileges
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Sergey Prigogin <eclipse.sprigogin>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Sergey Prigogin <eclipse.sprigogin>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	Szymon Ptaszkiewicz <sptaszkiewicz>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	sptaszkiewicz
Version:	4.4	Keywords:	test
Target Milestone:	4.5 M3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Sergey Prigogin

2014-07-23 23:05:01 EDT

Symlink tests are currently disabled on Windows because symlink creation requires administrator privileges. Modify the tests in such a way that they could be run with administrator privileges and test symlink Windows symlink support in Eclipse.

Comment 1 Sergey Prigogin

2014-07-23 23:51:00 EDT

A proposed solution is in https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/30391/

Comment 2 Szymon Ptaszkiewicz

2014-10-02 11:54:02 EDT

The runtime part proposed in https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/30454/ has been pushed to master:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.runtime.git/commit/?id=00b22317639251c0d581f0fb398d4fa96d20e72d

Comment 3 Szymon Ptaszkiewicz

2014-10-13 10:20:24 EDT

(In reply to Sergey Prigogin from comment #1)
> A proposed solution is in https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/30391/

Fixed in master:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.resources.git/commit/?id=e3faa7c772fc638e698a5a77bce99a9449105980

Comment 4 Szymon Ptaszkiewicz

2014-10-15 04:50:45 EDT

Verified in I20141014-0800.