* Joseph Myers: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Vineet Gupta wrote: > >> timezone test driver "zic" creates testdata directory wuth umask 755, so >> only root owner/group has write permissions. However the buildroot > > root should not be involved in running tests at all; all tests should run > as a normal user, the same one that owns the build directory, and thus all > files and directories in the build directory should be owned by that user. > (Some tests use user namespaces to test functionality that requires root, > but that's root inside a namespace, not the real user root.) There are also some xtests that require root privileges, such as nptl/tst-setuid1. Building and testing as root is supported (but obviously not recommended unless you use a throwaway machine). Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ linux-snps-arc mailing list linux-snps-arc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-snps-arc
