On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > because the nobody user does not have access to > > the /full/path/to/the/directory which the new `rm` resides > > Ah! That explains it. > > > one of the directories in the absolute tree is actually go-rwx, so i > > guess the failure cascades from there > > Above the tree outside of coreutils or in the tree within coreutils? > I am assuming it was outside the tree above it?
above the coreutils source/build tree ... so everything under coreutils-6.9.90/ is OK ... > The test should check for this possibility. Should this be a global > check for all of the root tests that might use nobody? Probably. i thought there was already such a helper function, but i dont know off the top of my head ... -mike
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