Is 6.3 ready for release?

[Ken Moffat]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:34:15AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> 
> I believe I found a way to "fix" the error which doesn't require
> changing the permissions of the host's pseudo-terms: tie stdin to
> /dev/null when running the tests. Basically, this prevents the stdin
> test from doing anything useful. If you look closely, though, the
> stdout and stderr tests aren't doing anything either, though, because
> they've been tied to a log file. So, I say we just go all the way and
> make the terminal tests useless (especially since we're running them
> through su, which is probably not the intended way).
> 
> su-tools nobody -s /bin/bash -c "make tests" </dev/null
> 
 That feels much safer than using chown on /dev/stdin.  But how do
we explain it in the text ?  "This test won't work when run like
this, so we make it succeed by doing nothing useful" might raise a
lot of questions about the point of testsuites in the minds of some
of our readers ;)

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