Thanks for reporting that. I think the bug was fixed in coreutils CVS
as follows:
2005-05-10 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/touch/not-owner: Skip this test if the user running it
owns `/' or has write access to it.
--- not-owner 23 Jun 2004 15:07:05 -0000 1.3
+++ not-owner 10 May 2005 13:30:39 -0000 1.5
@@ -11,6 +11,17 @@ fi
. $srcdir/../lang-default
PRIV_CHECK_ARG=require-non-root . $srcdir/../priv-check
+test=../../src/test
+if $test -w /; then
+ echo Skipping because you have write access to /.
+ (exit 77); exit 77
+fi
+
+if $test -O / || $test -G /; then
+ echo Skipping because you own /.
+ (exit 77); exit 77
+fi
+
pwd=`pwd`
t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$
trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
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