Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.17.70-1bacb4

[Jim Meyering]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:

> On 08/08/2012 05:43 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
>> +require_mount_list_()
>> +{
>> +  df >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
>> +    skip_ "Unable to read the list of mounted file systems."
>> +}
>> +
>
> Hmm, I think this is not enough: df can also fail due to other reasons,
> e.g. when a mount point is not reachable by the user:
>
>   $ src/df > /dev/null  ; echo $?
>   src/df: ‘/root/backup’: Permission denied
>   1

Good point.

"df ." or "df /" should be more reliable.