From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:53:28 +0000
Subject: Re: udev-149
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On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 11:46 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Not really an upstream udev problem.  udev-test.pl needs to be run as 
> root.  See forwarded message below.
> 
> That said, udev-test.pl would ideally check for root before it spewed 
> out 150 test failures :).

It does this already:
  if (!($<=0))
    print "Must have root permissions to run properly.\n";

And it seem to work fine here:
  $ make check
  ...
  make --no-print-directory check-TESTS
  Must have root permissions to run properly.
  PASS: test/udev-test.pl
  ======  1 test passed
  ======  ...

Kay