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 - 1.3
I was running the tests for coreutils-5.2.1, and the second touch
test (not-owner) failed. The exact output is below.
On Mac OS X (at least 10.4.1, the latest Tiger version) the default
user is something between an unprivileged user and a root user. Among
other things, they have write
