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Re: [PATCH] mknod: be more vocal about danger of running tests as root


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mknod: be more vocal about danger of running tests as root
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:51:47 -0600
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On 07/30/2010 05:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> * m4/mknod.m4 (gl_FUNC_MKNOD): Make it harder to run configure as
> root, since that is just asking for problems.
> Based on a report by Bruno Haible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
> 
> What do you think of this?

No comments, so I pushed it after testing a build as root (in a VM that
I didn't mind trashing, in case anything went wrong).

> +2010-07-30  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
> +
> +     mknod: be more vocal about danger of running tests as root
> +     * m4/mknod.m4 (gl_FUNC_MKNOD): Make it harder to run configure as
> +     root, since that is just asking for problems.
> +     Based on a report by Bruno Haible.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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