...as the subject says, this test fails when run as root because root is not restricted by file permissions. AFAICT coreutils-6.5 introduced this and coreutils-6.6 is still affected. The following patch fixes the test:
diff -uNr coreutils-6.5/tests/du/inacc-dest coreutils-6.5/tests/du/inacc-dest --- coreutils-6.5/tests/du/inacc-dest 2006-11-11 17:33:28.000000000 +0200 +++ coreutils-6.5/tests/du/inacc-dest 2006-11-21 15:03:37.000000000 +0200 @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ . $srcdir/../envvar-check . $srcdir/../lang-default +PRIV_CHECK_ARG=require-non-root . $srcdir/../priv-check pwd=`pwd` t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$ Regards, Theodoros Kalamatianos _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
