> From: Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io>
> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 2:28 AM
>
> [...]
>
>>> Perhaps you could split the tests into two groups: one that requires
>>> root and one that doesn't.  That way, people without root rights could
>>> at least run some of the tests.
>>
>> Rather than that, since this is a POSIX SRFI with a user-effective-uid
>> procedure, I just conditionalize the tests based on it being 0 or not.
>
> Good ideas. Not sure which is the better way to do it.
>
>> The only tricky bit is that for debugging purposes the set of small
>> files is left after a test run and deleted before beginning a new one,
>> so before you switch back to being a non-privileged user you need to
>> manually delete them.
>
> Is there a particular reason the test suite cleanup code can't delete
> the temp files?

So that if a filesystem related test blows up, you might be able to
figure out the problem by looking at the test directory.  It's only a
problem in this special case of running as root, and I figure that's
sufficiently involved adding this extra burden is not a major problem.

- Harold