Re: Bug in SVN::Client

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Saw no attached script, but, I mean, is there really a bug here? When
> you run 'sudo', the HOME environment variable is left as that of the
> real UID. Does the problem go away when you run 'sudo -H ./test' ?

No that doesn't fix it; it really is due to the real UID being 0 and the
effective UID not having access to root's files. I've traced back as
far as svn_config_get_config() but I haven't worked my way back to
discover the algorithm that tries to find the HOME on it's own.

But more importantly if I change the initializer to be this:

        my $client = SVN::Client->new(config=>{});

then the test file succeeds (and indeed this fixes SVN::Web as well).

John

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