Squish: Improve changePermission()

Change-Id: I3ce1691afc2fad3949d216dee37b06a33e40f6f1
Reviewed-by: Robert Loehning <robert.loehning@digia.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tests/system/shared/fs_utils.py b/tests/system/shared/fs_utils.py
index 5a0c22ea15..8a5c8e3451 100644
--- a/tests/system/shared/fs_utils.py
+++ b/tests/system/shared/fs_utils.py
@@ -50,9 +50,15 @@ def changeFilePermissions(dirPath, readPerm, writePerm, excludeFileNames=None):
         return False
     filePaths = [os.path.join(dirPath, fileName) for fileName in os.listdir(dirPath)
                  if fileName not in excludeFileNames]
+    result = True
     for filePath in filter(os.path.isfile, filePaths):
-        os.chmod(filePath, permission)
-    return True
+        try:
+            os.chmod(filePath, permission)
+        except:
+            t,v = sys.exc_info()[:2]
+            test.log("Error: %s(%s)" % (str(t), str(v)))
+            result = False
+    return result
 
 def isWritable(pathToFile):
     if os.path.exists(pathToFile):