guard: a case built on a symbolic link fails on CI instead of skipping by donislawdev · Pull Request #151 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-09-29T08:51:07Z

What

A guard built on a symbolic link now fails on CI when the host refuses to create the link, instead of skipping. Off CI it still skips, which -v prints.

Why

The Windows test job runs go test ./... without -v, so a skip there cannot be told apart from a pass. Eight cases in four files skipped whenever the host lacked the privilege to create a symbolic link, and no run showed whether they had ever executed on Windows. One of them is TestADirectoryReachedThroughALinkStillWorks, the guard meant to prove that #150 still writes into a directory reached through a link.

How

plantLink(t, target, link) in symlinkescape_test.go replaces eight copies of "make the link or skip" in symlinkescape, writeescape, boundaryresolution and safety.
A refusal that is not about the privilege is a failure everywhere, as the old writeescape helper already did.
The CI decision is a function of its input, linkCasesMaySkip, guarded by TestACaseBuiltOnALinkSkipsOnlyOffCI, the same shape as screensAreCompared.

What this run of CI answers

test on windows-latest green: the runner creates symbolic links, and every link case, including the one for write: a finished file takes its name only while nobody holds it #150, ran and passed there.
Red with "this host does not allow creating a symbolic link": the runner cannot, and the cases need another way to be built there.
Red any other way: a real finding on Windows.

Measured locally: without CI the eight cases skip, with CI=1 all eight fail with the message above, and the new guard passes.

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Tests
- Updated symbolic-link test setup to use a consistent helper across boundary, safety, escape, and write scenarios.
- Permission-related link creation failures now fail tests on CI and may skip them outside CI; other link creation errors fail the test.
- Removed the previous link-permission skip handling from write tests.

The Windows job runs go test without -v, so a skip there reads exactly like a pass. Eight cases in four files skipped whenever the host refused to create a symbolic link, and nothing showed whether they had ever run on Windows - among them the guard meant to prove that a directory reached through a link is still written after #150. One helper, plantLink, replaces the eight copies of "make the link or skip". Off CI a refused link is still a skip, which -v prints. On CI it is a failure. The condition is a function of its input, linkCasesMaySkip, with its own guard, the same shape as screensAreCompared. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Guard tests now use plantLink to create symbolic links. linkedEscape fails on non-permission errors and on permission errors in CI, and skips on permission errors outside CI. The tests cover both CI conditions.

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Symlink test setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Link creation handling `internal/guard/boundaryresolution_test.go`, `internal/guard/safety_test.go`, `internal/guard/symlinkescape_test.go`, `internal/guard/writeescape_test.go`	Tests use `plantLink` instead of inline symlink creation and skip handling. `linkedEscape` distinguishes permission-related errors based on CI status, and a test covers both CI conditions. The obsolete `skipIfLinksAreNotAllowed` helper is removed.

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Change: Bug fix

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main behavior change: symbolic-link test failures now fail on CI instead of being skipped. It is specific enough for release notes and git history.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative diff changes only four `internal/guard/*_test.go` files and does not change application runtime behavior. It preserves the link-case assertions, centralizes link setup in `plan…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only four Go test files. The diff adds no CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude, or .env files. Added lines contain no credentials, tokens, private URLs, local absolu…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only four Go test files under internal/guard. The diff adds symbolic-link test helpers and updates test setup; it does not add or modify GUI code such as XAML, Slint, Fyne, Tk…
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No clear performance problem is introduced. The PR changes only Go test fixtures and adds a small link-creation helper. `plantLink` is called a fixed number of times during test setup, with no large c…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	PASS — The PR changes only four Go test files. The added code centralizes symbolic-link fixture creation and CI skip/fail handling. It does not load working-directory assets, change application file p…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	The PR changes only Go test files. It adds `os.Symlink` calls through `plantLink` and changes skip/fail handling for link-creation errors. It does not add file parsing, deserialization, archive handli…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only Go test fixtures and skip/fail handling for symbolic-link creation. It does not modify network filters, proxy/firewall rules, system time, process hooking/injection, Windows …
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	The PR changes only guard-test diagnostics and comments. The new symbolic-link failure text states what happened and gives an action: grant the privilege or use a fixture that needs none. The skip tex…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	The PR changes only guard tests. The added `plantLink` calls `os.Symlink` and uses `t.TempDir()` fixtures, which the test framework cleans up. The diff adds no files, streams, processes, timers, gorou…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The PR is scoped to four `internal/guard/*_test.go` files, and every change implements the stated symbolic-link test handling. The new `plantLink` helper replaces the removed `skipIfLinksAreNotAllowed…

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donislawdev · 2026-09-29T09:35:31Z

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Review comments at @internal/guard/symlinkescape_test.go:
- Line 68: Update the error classification in the test around plantLink to
inspect the underlying *os.LinkError.Err or a typed platform error instead of
searching err.Error() for “privilege”; only skip for genuine permission errors,
and fail for all other symlink-creation errors.
- Around line 92-93: Update TestACaseBuiltOnALinkSkipsOnlyOffCI to verify
plantLink’s skip decision, not just linkCasesMaySkip: inject link creation or
use the error-classification decision plantLink calls, then assert the outcomes
for permission errors with and without CI and for non-permission errors.

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