Re: coreutils-6.9 build/check-root: test/rm failed on no-give-up

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
>>> The permissions of "." (the directory containing "d") were set
>>> to be rwx------ (aka u=rwx), so that rmdir by non-owner should
>>> have failed, regardless of the umask.
>>
>> I thought "chmod u=rwx ." only sets user permissions without changing
>> group or other permissions? Probably it should be "chmod 755 ." or so.
>
> Argh.  Of course.
> I will make it do this instead:
>
>   chown a=,u=rwx .

Actually, this is more appropriate (chmod, of course):

  chmod go= .