From faaa14a303dabc6309a52cc8e5eba86f9e29ccaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:14:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests/libutil: disable guessOrInventPath sockets test

not very useful, fails in docker and on macos. let's disable it for now.

fixes #1113

Change-Id: If83ea11ff7120eb7fb30601096374d167107573c
---
 tests/unit/libutil/tests.cc | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/unit/libutil/tests.cc b/tests/unit/libutil/tests.cc
index df7b7f7cc..34ced9f18 100644
--- a/tests/unit/libutil/tests.cc
+++ b/tests/unit/libutil/tests.cc
@@ -282,7 +282,11 @@ namespace nix {
         pipe_read.close();
     }
 
-    TEST(guessOrInventPath, sockets) {
+    TEST(guessOrInventPath, DISABLED_sockets)
+    {
+        // this test no longer works correctly as a unit test because overly long socket paths
+        // require a libexec helper to bind/connect. we leave it around for reference; sockets
+        // are rarely passed to guessOrInventPath (if this happens at all, we haven't checked)
         Path socketPath = getUnitTestDataPath("guess-or-invent/socket");
         createDirs(dirOf(socketPath));
         AutoCloseFD socket = createUnixDomainSocket(socketPath, 0666);