Re: [LTP] [PATCH] LTP must be extracted to an accessible location

[Mike F. <va...@ge...>]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:51:29 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ contributions are welcome.
>  2. Untar the ltp tarball into a spare directory.  There is not a
>     standard location for it yet.  We put it in our home directory
>     while we're working on it.
> +   Note that this location must be accessible for unprivileged users, as
> +   some tests are run as a different user than root.  Hence /root is not a
> +   good choice on several distributions.

i would use the phrase "full path to this location".  non-root could access 
./foo/, but it could not access $PWD/foo/ ...
-mike