From 59d6e59deca04f17e8d5ba12617884a74acc0131 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Ernst <ryan@iernst.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 12:41:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] silence symlink test on windows

---
 .../test/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/SecurityTests.java   | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/SecurityTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/SecurityTests.java
index 51d08d05bf7..3c3db267292 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/SecurityTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/SecurityTests.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.bootstrap;
 
+import org.apache.lucene.util.Constants;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.env.Environment;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ElasticsearchTestCase;
@@ -207,6 +208,8 @@ public class SecurityTests extends ElasticsearchTestCase {
 
     /** When a configured dir is a symlink, test that permissions work on link target */
     public void testSymlinkPermissions() throws IOException {
+        // see https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/12170
+        assumeFalse("windows does not automatically grant permission to the target of symlinks", Constants.WINDOWS);
         Path dir = createTempDir();
 
         Path target = dir.resolve("target");