From fd35a8b08166af5b9b16bd1c83d4f7ae881e55c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:59:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update section on testing as `root'. Suggestion from Paul Jarc. --- README | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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. *************************************** -- 2.47.2