Mike Frysinger wrote: > because the nobody user does not have access to > the /full/path/to/the/directory which the new `rm` resides
Ah! That explains it. > one of the directories in the absolute tree is actually go-rwx, so i > guess the failure cascades from there Above the tree outside of coreutils or in the tree within coreutils? I am assuming it was outside the tree above it? The test should check for this possibility. Should this be a global check for all of the root tests that might use nobody? Probably. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
