Re: touch & README

[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden on 1/23/2006 8:49 PM:
> First, the REEADME says, "There are pretty many tests," which would fail any 
> remedial English class.  Just remove the "pretty".

Thanks for the advice; hopefully someone with write access will improve
the wording as suggested.

> 
> tests/touch/not-owner produces a misdirecting error message when touch is 
> allowed to change "/".  Then "out" is a null string which will not match one 
> of the three "exp" strings.  It prints the last of the three error message 
> strings.  Since the error condition, successful completion, was known 
> specifically even before the error message is checked, there was no reason to 
> go that far and a more explicit error message could have been given.

Which version of coreutils are you using, on which platform?  This problem
in the test suite was detected and corrected between 5.3.0 and 5.90; the
latest stable release of coreutils is 5.93.  The framework should have
skipped the test altogether if you are root, can write to /, or own /.
How else are you allowed to change /?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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