Re: [Nmh-workers] Starting the final call for features for 1.7

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Oliver,

> A number of tests are failing on Solaris. This seems to mostly consist
> of:
>   id: illegal option -- u
>   Usage: id [-ap] [user]
>   FAIL: test/mhmail/test-mhmail

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/test/post/test-post-common.sh#n12
suggests the effective user ID is only used to cook up a `64000 + $euid
% 1000' port for the fake SMTP server to listen on.  Presumably,
something more steady that the sh's $$ is sought?  Creating a temporary
file and then `ls -no' might be portable to stick with EUID?

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