On 5/12/26 10:30 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
tests/run-all uses `sh' to execute tests/run-*. If sh is bash 5.3+,
running tests/run-test will fail because `unset UID' causes a posix-
mode non-interactive bash to exit.
Weird. I found and fixed this last week after encountering it on
Fedora 44.
As a side note, it is kind of surprising that if {E,}UID is present in
the environment, the value is inherited (and the resulting variable is
not readonly).
Because people used it, and making it readonly broke their scripts.
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