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Re: coreutils-5.0.1 released
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils-5.0.1 released |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:00:11 +0200 |
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>> * tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Now that we have setuidgid, use it in
>> place of the kludge in this test.
>
> Thanks. I think NON_ROOT_USERNAME should be mentioned in README too.
> (ATM, README still has a now-out-of-date note that setuidgid ought to
> be used.)
So do I :-)
Thanks! I've made this change:
Index: README
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/README,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.10 README
--- README 6 Jul 2003 06:08:17 -0000 1.10
+++ README 16 Jul 2003 07:57:47 -0000
@@ -73,10 +73,14 @@ Here is one possible patch to correct th
-#ifndef __STDC_32_MODE__
+#ifndef __LP64__
-On some systems, some of the tests fail when run as root. All failures
-I've seen appear to be due to problems in the testing framework, not
-in the tools themselves. I'll address that for the next release by
-using a program like setuidgid (see the comment in TODO).
+If you run the tests as root, note that a few of them create files
+and/or run programs as a non-root user, `nobody' by default.
+If you want to use some other non-root username, specify it via
+the NON_ROOT_USERNAME environment variable.
+If you can run the tests as root, please do so and report any
+problems. We get much less test coverage in that mode, and it's
+arguably more important that these tools work well when run by
+root than when run by unprivileged users.
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- coreutils-5.0.1 released, Jim Meyering, 2003/07/15
- Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2003/07/16
- Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released, Jim Meyering, 2003/07/16
- Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released, Paul Eggert, 2003/07/16
- Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2003/07/16
- Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released, Jim Meyering, 2003/07/16
- warning about _-variables (Was: Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-5.0.1 released), Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2003/07/18
- Re: warning about _-variables, Jim Meyering, 2003/07/18
Re: coreutils-5.0.1 released, Paul Jarc, 2003/07/16
- Re: coreutils-5.0.1 released,
Jim Meyering <=
Re: coreutils-5.0.1 released, Paul Jarc, 2003/07/16