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Update section on testing as `root'.

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Suggestion from Paul Jarc.
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Jim Meyering
2003-07-16 07:59:05 +00:00
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@@ -73,10 +73,14 @@ Here is one possible patch to correct the problem.
-#ifndef __STDC_32_MODE__
+#ifndef __LP64__
On some systems, some of the tests fail when run as root. All failures
I've seen appear to be due to problems in the testing framework, not
in the tools themselves. I'll address that for the next release by
using a program like setuidgid (see the comment in TODO).
If you run the tests as root, note that a few of them create files
and/or run programs as a non-root user, `nobody' by default.
If you want to use some other non-root username, specify it via
the NON_ROOT_USERNAME environment variable.
If you can run the tests as root, please do so and report any
problems. We get much less test coverage in that mode, and it's
arguably more important that these tools work well when run by
root than when run by unprivileged users.
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