Any word on this? On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Rocky Bernstein <ro...@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > >> Rocky Bernstein wrote: >> > Any progress or thoughts on the revised patch? >> >> Hi Rocky, >> Sorry about the delay. >> I haven't forgotten. >> >> I noticed that your test requires typing a root password. >> > > Um, no. I don't know how you got that impression, but did you try running > the test as a non-root or non-privileged user? > > Here is what I got when I just tried: > > $ (cd tests && make check TESTS=su/p-and-l) > make check-TESTS > make[1]: Entering directory `/src/external-vcs/coreutils/tests' > make[2]: Entering directory `/src/external-vcs/coreutils/tests' > PASS: su/p-and-l > ============= > 1 test passed > ============= > > (Sorry for the delay - I wrote this long enough ago that I didn't > remember what I did and only now have I had the time to review.) > > > > > > We prefer to avoid that, so that the tests can be run >> non-interactively. That's why some tests are root-only. >> (see README for details on running them) >> They're marked with require_root_. >> At least one is a bourne shell husk that actually does >> its work in Perl, so may be a good model. >> > >
