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test_properties may fail if the test is run by a user with elevated privileges
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This issue is open referring the issue noted in this PR: https://github.com/enthought/apptools/pull/88
> 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.
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> os.chmod(f.path, stat.S_IRUSR)
> self.assertEqual(f.is_readonly, True)
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> This fails because root will always have permission to write to the file.
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