Re: fail-2eperm (was: coreutils-6.9.90 test results for x86_64-linux-gnu)

[Bob Proulx]

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?

The test should check for this possibility.  Should this be a global
check for all of the root tests that might use nobody?  Probably.

Bob