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Re: fail-2eperm (was: coreutils-6.9.90 test results for x86_64-linux-gnu
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: fail-2eperm (was: coreutils-6.9.90 test results for x86_64-linux-gnu) |
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Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:41:51 -0500 |
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > because the nobody user does not have access to
> > the /full/path/to/the/directory which the new `rm` resides
>
> Ah! That explains it.
>
> > one of the directories in the absolute tree is actually go-rwx, so i
> > guess the failure cascades from there
>
> Above the tree outside of coreutils or in the tree within coreutils?
> I am assuming it was outside the tree above it?
above the coreutils source/build tree ... so everything under
coreutils-6.9.90/ is OK ...
> The test should check for this possibility. Should this be a global
> check for all of the root tests that might use nobody? Probably.
i thought there was already such a helper function, but i dont know off the
top of my head ...
-mike
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