Re: [PATCH] testsuite fix: timezone: failing due to permissions in cross testing

[Vineet Gupta <vineet dot gupta1 at synopsys dot com>]

On 12/17/18 3:17 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
>>   #ifdef S_IRUSR
>> -#define MKDIR_UMASK (S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IXGRP|S_IROTH|S_IXOTH)
>> +#define MKDIR_UMASK
>> (S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IXGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH|S_IXOTH)
>>   #else
>>   #define MKDIR_UMASK 0755
>>   #endif
> 
> The zic.c code is taken from upstream, and I'm loath to change it everywhere
> simply because a glibc test driver isn't working somewhere, as I expect this would
> lead to security holes elsewhere. Intead, how about changing the test script to
> chmod the testdata directory after zic creates it, or to segregate the tzdata
> directory from the other test results?

OK, the idea here was to solicit ideas about how to go about addressing this. I
need to dig into the test harness to see how it can be addressed in the way you
suggest.

Thx,
-Vineet