That is, make it a QSKIP everywhere instead of a silent PASS on Unix systems. This test was accidentally disabled in Qt 4.6 commit 31e358f2290c145b839fc5b7b277922c1ab6e19b ("fix tests for QT_NO_PROCESS and when running tests as root"), which introduced an #else that disabled the entire meat of the test (that is, the test was for everything that is neither Unix nor Windows, which is an empty set). I am not enabling this test right now because it's failing and I don't plan on spending the time to fix it. It is possible to narrow down the QSKIP to QEXPECT_FAIL on the actual failing test lines, but that is also left as an exercise to the reader. FAIL! : tst_QSettings::testErrorHandling(0600 0100) Compared values are not the same Actual ((int)settings.status()): 1 Expected (statusAfterSetAndSync) : 0 Loc: [tests/auto/corelib/io/qsettings/tst_qsettings.cpp(941)] FAIL! : tst_QSettings::testErrorHandling(0600 0100) 'settingsDir.removeRecursively()' returned FALSE. () Loc: [tests/auto/corelib/io/qsettings/tst_qsettings.cpp(314)] FAIL! : tst_QSettings::testErrorHandling( -1 0300) 'settingsDir.removeRecursively()' returned FALSE. () Loc: [tests/auto/corelib/io/qsettings/tst_qsettings.cpp(314)] FAIL! : tst_QSettings::testErrorHandling(0600 0300) 'settingsDir.removeRecursively()' returned FALSE. () Loc: [tests/auto/corelib/io/qsettings/tst_qsettings.cpp(314)] FAIL! : tst_QSettings::testErrorHandling(0600 0500) Compared values are not the same Actual ((int)settings.status()): 1 Expected (statusAfterSetAndSync) : 0 Loc: [tests/auto/corelib/io/qsettings/tst_qsettings.cpp(941)] FAIL! : tst_QSettings::testErrorHandling(0600 0500) 'settingsDir.removeRecursively()' returned FALSE. () Loc: [tests/auto/corelib/io/qsettings/tst_qsettings.cpp(314)] Task-number: QTBUG-126008 Change-Id: If3345151ddf84c43a4f1fffd17d277979e987905 Reviewed-by: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Ahmad Samir <a.samirh78@gmail.com>