Re: coreutils-6.10 tests/misc/pwd-long fails when / is not readable

[Jim Meyering]

"Theodoros V. Kalamatianos" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Would you please confirm that this patch is sufficient?
>>
>>      Subject: [PATCH] Avoid test failures when root (/) is not readable.
>>
>>      * tests/test-lib.sh (require_readable_root_): New function.
>>      * tests/misc/pwd-long: Skip this test when / is unreadable.
>>      * tests/du/slash: Likewise.
>>      This is required at least for Mandrake/Mandriva in "secure" mode.
>>      Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos in
>>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12800
>
> After a minor modification to apply to coreutils-6.10, I run the tests
> and everything was fine. Got the SKIP messages too - which my own
> patches (adding `[[ -r / ]] || exit 0' to both tests) did not show...

Good.  Thanks.
I've pushed the fix.