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

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On 12/17/18 3:25 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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.)

I agree with this, but it is really hard /cumbersome to do this in a cross setup,
with a busybox based system. We need the real/full blown utilities and do this
natively.

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