A while back we changed the bash test suite to run as the nobody user because it enables more tests to be run. Ken and I have each had a pair of test failures building with 6.3-rc1. Looking closer, the test is checking whether `test -r /dev/stdin' and `test -r /dev/fd/0' return successfully.
These fail because permissions to the backing device (/dev/pts/0 in my case) are set up with 620 permissions, owned by dan:tty. This is host dependent, but I imagine it will fail more times than not when switching to the nobody user to run the test. One fix is basically to nullify the test by redirecting stdin to something that will definitely be readable, e.g. /dev/null. This is discussed here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-August/059866.html I added a patch later in the thread: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-August/059877.html One remaining question is, which device to attach to? I noticed that perl redirects /dev/tty to stdin during its tests, and Bryan says this should always be readable to all users. I'm clueless on terminal devices, so if anyone wants to make suggestions, pipe up. I would like to get this in and rolled into -rc2 soon. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
