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From: fweimer@redhat.com (Florian Weimer)
To: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] testsuite fix: timezone: failing due to permissions in cross testing
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:15:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o98quiwl.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1812181716180.2407@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (Joseph Myers's message of "Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:17:53 +0000")

* 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

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-09 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-17 23:09 [PATCH] testsuite fix: timezone: failing due to permissions in cross testing Vineet Gupta
2018-12-17 23:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-17 23:23   ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-17 23:25 ` Joseph Myers
2018-12-17 23:38   ` Vineet Gupta
2018-12-17 23:42     ` Joseph Myers
2018-12-18  9:12   ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-18 17:17     ` Joseph Myers
2019-01-09 12:15       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2018-12-18 16:53   ` Vineet Gupta
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-12-17 23:04 Vineet Gupta

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