+# Test whether something is a link, allowing for shell peculiarities
+is_a_link() {
+ test -L "$1" || test -h "$1" || /usr/bin/test -L "$1" || /usr/bin/test -h "$1"
+}
+
+
+# We need to set the umask to be reproducible. Note also that when we
+# do some daemon tests as root, we will setuid() and therefore the
+# directory has to be writable by the nobody user in some cases. The
+# best thing is probably to explicitly chmod those directories after
+# creation.
+
+umask 022
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