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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-09-06 12:00:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-09-07 11:03:24 +0200 |
| commit | 51a4b04954ad5ad12de1d1b82a3603fc350a3bfa (patch) | |
| tree | 075ddcfbd97b30b2d096e67d2c40eb1b4366536c /NEWS | |
| parent | 47fd706a7540e7ae3d19c625d90c28b88a8a640c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-51a4b04954ad5ad12de1d1b82a3603fc350a3bfa.tar.xz | |
tests: improve checks for setuidgid-using root-only tests
* init.cfg (setuidgid_has_perm_): New function.
(require_root_): Use it.
Improved-by: Bernhard Voelker
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention the improvement.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- on those file systems, rather than the default (for unknown file system types) of issuing a warning and reverting to polling. +** Build-related + + root-only tests now check for permissions of our dummy user, + $NON_ROOT_USERNAME, before trying to run binaries from the build directory. + Before, we would get hard-to-diagnose reports of failing root-only tests. + Now, those tests are skipped with a useful diagnostic when the root tests + are run without following the instructions in README. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.19 (2012-08-20) [stable] |