Try to avoid running on a system that allows us to create devices

[rsync/rsync.git] / testsuite / devices.test

diff --git a/testsuite/devices.test b/testsuite/devices.test
index 7b4577e..ca186eb 100644 (file)
--- a/testsuite/devices.test
+++ b/testsuite/devices.test
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ set -x
 fromdir="$scratchdir/from"
 todir="$scratchdir/to"
 
+case `id -u` in
+'') ;; # If "id" failed, try to continue...
+0) ;;
+*) test_skipped "Rsync won't copy devices unless we're root" ;;
+esac
+
 # TODO: Need to test whether hardlinks are possible on this OS/filesystem
 
 mkdir "$fromdir"