From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:59:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update section on testing as `root'.
X-Git-Tag: v5.0.90~252
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd35a8b08166af5b9b16bd1c83d4f7ae881e55c4;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Update section on testing as `root'.
Suggestion from Paul Jarc.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index de399238ab..6588281513 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -73,10 +73,14 @@ Here is one possible patch to correct the problem.
 -#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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