Update the file.jl tests to allow for both EPERM and EINVAL in the non-root CHOWN tests (#41682)

Co-authored-by: Elliot Saba <staticfloat@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Elliot Saba <staticfloat@gmail.com>

Author: DilumAluthge

test/file.jl

@@ -506,6 +506,29 @@ rm(c_tmpdir, recursive=true)
 @test_throws Base._UVError("unlink($(repr(c_tmpdir)))", Base.UV_ENOENT) rm(c_tmpdir, recursive=true)
 @test rm(c_tmpdir, force=true, recursive=true) === nothing
 
+# Some operations can return multiple different error codes depending on the system environment.
+function throws_matching_exception(f::Function, acceptable_exceptions::AbstractVector)
+    try
+        f()
+        @error "No exception was thrown."
+        return false
+    catch ex
+        if ex in acceptable_exceptions
+            return true
+        else
+            @error "The thrown exception is not in the list of acceptable exceptions" acceptable_exceptions exception=(ex, catch_backtrace())
+            return false
+        end
+    end
+end
+function throws_matching_uv_error(f::Function, pfx::AbstractString, codes::AbstractVector{<:Integer})
+    acceptable_exceptions = multiple_uv_errors(pfx, codes)
+    return throws_matching_exception(f, acceptable_exceptions)
+end
+function multiple_uv_errors(pfx::AbstractString, codes::AbstractVector{<:Integer})
+    return [Base._UVError(pfx, code) for code in codes]
+end
+
 if !Sys.iswindows()
     # chown will give an error if the user does not have permissions to change files
     if get(ENV, "USER", "") == "root" || get(ENV, "HOME", "") == "/root"
@@ -518,8 +541,12 @@ if !Sys.iswindows()
         @test stat(file).gid == 0
         @test stat(file).uid == 0
     else
-        @test_throws Base._UVError("chown($(repr(file)), -2, -1)", Base.UV_EPERM) chown(file, -2, -1)  # Non-root user cannot change ownership to another user
-        @test_throws Base._UVError("chown($(repr(file)), -1, -2)", Base.UV_EPERM) chown(file, -1, -2)  # Non-root user cannot change group to a group they are not a member of (eg: nogroup)
+        @test throws_matching_uv_error("chown($(repr(file)), -2, -1)", [Base.UV_EPERM, Base.UV_EINVAL]) do
+            chown(file, -2, -1)  # Non-root user cannot change ownership to another user
+        end
+        @test throws_matching_uv_error("chown($(repr(file)), -1, -2)", [Base.UV_EPERM, Base.UV_EINVAL]) do
+            chown(file, -1, -2)  # Non-root user cannot change group to a group they are not a member of (eg: nogroup)
+        end
     end
 else
     # test that chown doesn't cause any errors for Windows