Skipping a unit test when run as root

[stewbond]

When building and testing the package in a chroot enviornment, we have a root user. However, test_properties fails when run as a root user.

os.chmod(f.path, stat.S_IRUSR)
self.assertEqual(f.is_readonly, True)

This fails because root will always have permission to write to the file. That makes sense. And it also therefore makes sense to skip this test when run as root.

[mdickinson]

I'm not convinced that this is the right solution. For one thing, os.getuid doesn't exist on Windows.

[mdickinson]

Closing and re-opening to retrigger CI.

[kitchoi]

Thank you @stewbond. The issue looks like a legitimate one. I opened #191 to track it.

[rahulporuri]

closing as we now have an issue to track the underlying problem and this solution doesn't work on all platforms so it's not the right one for us.