mknod: be more vocal about danger of running tests as root

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+2010-08-09  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
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+       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.
+       Suggested by Bruno Haible, based on a report by Rainer Tammer.
+
+       readlinkat: split into its own module
+       * modules/symlinkat: Split readlinkat...
+       * modules/readlinkat: ...into separate module.
+       * m4/symlinkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_SYMLINKAT): Move readlinkat check...
+       * m4/readlinkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_READLINAT): ...to new file.
+       * lib/symlinkat.c (readlinkat): Move...
+       * lib/readlinkat.c: ...into new file.
+       * modules/symlinkat-tests: Split readlinkat test...
+       * modules/readlinkat-tests: ...into separate module.
+       * tests/test-symlinkat.c: Split...
+       * tests/test-readlinkat.c: ...into new file.
+       * NEWS: Document the split.
+       * doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi (readlinkat): Likewise.
+       * lib/unistd.in.h (readlinkat): Likewise.
+       Suggested by Bruno Haible.
+
 2010-08-08  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
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