Jim Meyering wrote: > >>From ce9ff50623ad010fb52c3a4bf18a232eb875137c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:13:22 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid spurious failures due to insecure directory in > PATH > > These tests perform no PATH search, and used to simply delete PATH from > the environment. However, that is not portable, as seen on Cygwin, > where cygwin.dll must be resolvable via PATH when starting a sub-shell. > With commit 0cc04241, we took the alternate approach of untaining the
s/untaining/untainting/ Off the top of my head the following might point out dodgy $PATH entries to the reporters: echo $PATH | tr : '\n' | sed -n '/^\//!p' find -H $( ( echo $PATH | tr : '\n' | xargs -n1 readlink -f echo $PATH | tr : '\n' ) | sed -n ':s; p; s#/\{0,\}[^/]\{1,\}$##; /./b s' | sort -u ) -maxdepth 0 -perm -o=w Hmm, as we're adding /abs/path/to/coreutils/src to the start of the $PATH, then I'm guessing that this issue is caused by running from /tmp which is often o+w Maybe we need to just remove the coreutils/src from the $PATH for these tests? cheers, Pádraig.