Maybe following entry in the coreutils-6.9/README file is related to the umask / chmod interaction, and maybe the "may fail" bit in there would go away if all 'mkdir' or 'touch' in all tests are followed by a 'chmod' that explicitly sets all bits (not just a few of them).
Greets, Arto from README: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Depending on the permissions with which the working directories have been created, using `nobody' may fail, because that user won't have the required read and write access to the build and test directories. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
