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

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Dec 18 17:18:00 GMT 2018


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).

> obviously not recommended unless you use a throwaway machine).

And the combination of some parts of the testsuite writing to the build 
directory as root and other parts as a normal user isn't supported, in 
particular.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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