Re: coreutils-5.0.1 released

[Jim Meyering]

> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>      * tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Now that we have setuidgid, use it in
>>      place of the kludge in this test.
>
> Thanks.  I think NON_ROOT_USERNAME should be mentioned in README too.
> (ATM, README still has a now-out-of-date note that setuidgid ought to
> be used.)

So do I :-)
Thanks!  I've made this change:

Index: README
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RCS file: /fetish/cu/README,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.10 README
--- README      6 Jul 2003 06:08:17 -0000       1.10
+++ README      16 Jul 2003 07:57:47 -0000
@@ -73,10 +73,14 @@ Here is one possible patch to correct th
 -#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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