On 21 Mar 2023, Pádraig Brady stated: > I'll update release procedure to do a test run as root > (which is unusual / ill-advised TBH).
Oh! I do it routinely because at one point coreutils maintainers were asking for people to do it more often -- and because if there is anything whose component tools are routinely run as root in normal operation, it's coreutils, so testing them that way too seems like a good idea anyway (given that the maintainers were asking for it, so it was presumably at least somewhat safe-ish). (The builds here happen in a container, so rm -rf / and the like are hopefully recoverable. Sure, as root you can break out, but that takes at least a little explicit action which coreutils's testsuite is unlikely to do!)
