> On 2020-Apr-02, at 13:10, Duncan Exon Smith via libcxx-dev 
> <libcxx-...@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 2020-Apr-02, at 11:23, Louis Dionne <ldio...@apple.com 
>> <mailto:ldio...@apple.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 2, 2020, at 14:05, Duncan Exon Smith <dexonsm...@apple.com 
>>> <mailto:dexonsm...@apple.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It looks like the following bots assigned to you started failing recently:
>>> 
>>> I agree the bots should be fixed, but...
>>> 
>>>> I strongly suspect this is due to the fact that your builder is running as 
>>>> root. Libc++'s filesystem tests are known to fail when run as root, 
>>>> because some of them need to check for failure to access some files for 
>>>> which there's no permission. This doesn't seem to work when run as root.
>>> 
>>> It seems like these tests could have a line like:
>>> ```
>>> REQUIRES: -user=root
>>> ```
>>> and libcxx's lit target could export a `user=root` feature when tests were 
>>> being run as root.  WDYT?
>>> 
>>> WDYT?
>>> 
>> 
>> I think you mean `// UNSUPPORTED: -user=root`? Yes, I think it would make 
>> sense. Either that or actually spend the time to make them work as root.
> 
> I meant `REQUIRES: !user=root`, I used the wrong negation.

Although UNSUPPORTED is maybe more clear.

> 
>> 
>> FWIW, I think the root cause of the issue is that "traverse" permissions in 
>> directories are not honoured when run as root:
>> 
>>     root $ d=$(mktemp -d)
>>     root $ touch $d/foo
>>     root $ chmod 000 $d
>>     root $ stat $d/foo
>>     16777221 234259215 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 0 <...>
>> 
>> When I would expect:
>> 
>>     ldionne $ d=$(mktemp -d)
>>     ldionne $ touch $d/foo
>>     ldionne $ chmod 000 $d
>>     ldionne $ stat $d/foo
>>     stat: <...>/tmp.JoY6Ixmo/foo: stat: Permission denied
>> 
>> Does that make sense? I didn't know 'root' had a free pass like that.
>> 
>> Louis
> 
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