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From: fweimer@redhat.com (Florian Weimer)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:15:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] testsuite fix: timezone: failing due to permissions in
 cross testing
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 (Joseph Myers's message of "Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:17:53 +0000")
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* 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