> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Now that we have setuidgid, use it in >> place of the kludge in this test. > > Thanks. I think NON_ROOT_USERNAME should be mentioned in README too. > (ATM, README still has a now-out-of-date note that setuidgid ought to > be used.)
So do I :-) Thanks! I've made this change: Index: README =================================================================== RCS file: /fetish/cu/README,v retrieving revision 1.10 diff -u -p -u -p -r1.10 README --- README 6 Jul 2003 06:08:17 -0000 1.10 +++ README 16 Jul 2003 07:57:47 -0000 @@ -73,10 +73,14 @@ Here is one possible patch to correct th -#ifndef __STDC_32_MODE__ +#ifndef __LP64__ -On some systems, some of the tests fail when run as root. All failures -I've seen appear to be due to problems in the testing framework, not -in the tools themselves. I'll address that for the next release by -using a program like setuidgid (see the comment in TODO). +If you run the tests as root, note that a few of them create files +and/or run programs as a non-root user, `nobody' by default. +If you want to use some other non-root username, specify it via +the NON_ROOT_USERNAME environment variable. +If you can run the tests as root, please do so and report any +problems. We get much less test coverage in that mode, and it's +arguably more important that these tools work well when run by +root than when run by unprivileged users. *************************************** _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
