I happened to build coreutils in a directory that was sgid. This
caused a test failure in the mknod test. The sgid bit propagates into
the directory created testing mkdir. The sgid mode bit was unexpected
by the test script and it failed.
Here is the relevent code from the mknod test script:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
* tests/misc/mknod: Improve permission checks to handle
running mkdir test in set-gid directories.
Thanks, I installed that on the trunk. This reflects a change in
behavior to mkdir (for compatibility with Solaris) that is not in the
5.9x
Paul Eggert wrote:
Thanks, I installed that on the trunk. This reflects a change in
behavior to mkdir (for compatibility with Solaris) that is not in the
5.9x branch, so we shouldn't need the patch there.
That did fix the test failure. Works now. Thanks!
I'd say that the outputs marked
