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Re: [PATCH] testsuite fix: timezone: failing due to permissions in cross testing
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Vineet Gupta <vineet dot gupta1 at synopsys dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <linux-snps-arc at lists dot infradead dot org>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:15:06 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] testsuite fix: timezone: failing due to permissions in cross testing
- References: <1545088170-24103-1-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1812172322060.9554@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <87a7l342rw.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1812181716180.2407@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
* Joseph Myers:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> There are also some xtests that require root privileges, such as
>> nptl/tst-setuid1. Building and testing as root is supported (but
>
> That looks like it ought to become a test using user namespaces (and so
> not an xtest).
Can an unprivileged user namespace really be used to get a working
setuid? The setup code in support_become_root/setup_uid_gid_mapping
does not provide that.
Thanks,
Florian