On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Jim Meyering <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jim@meyering.net">jim@meyering.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Rocky Bernstein wrote:<br>
&gt; Any progress or thoughts on the revised patch?<br>
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</div>Hi Rocky,<br>
Sorry about the delay.<br>
I haven&#39;t forgotten.<br>
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I noticed that your test requires typing a root password.<br></blockquote><div><br>Um, no. I don&#39;t know how you got that impression, but did you try running the test as a non-root or non-privileged user? <br><br>Here is what I got when I just tried: <br>
<br>$ (cd tests &amp;&amp; make check TESTS=su/p-and-l) <br>make  check-TESTS<br>make[1]: Entering directory `/src/external-vcs/coreutils/tests&#39;<br>make[2]: Entering directory `/src/external-vcs/coreutils/tests&#39;<br>
PASS: su/p-and-l<br>=============<br>1 test passed<br>=============<br><br>(Sorry for the delay - I wrote this long enough ago that  I didn&#39;t remember what I did and only now have I had the time to review.)<br><br><br>
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We prefer to avoid that, so that the tests can be run<br>
non-interactively.  That&#39;s why some tests are root-only.<br>
(see README for details on running them)<br>
They&#39;re marked with require_root_.<br>
At least one is a bourne shell husk that actually does<br>
its work in Perl, so may be a good model.<br>
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