btrfs-progs: tests, add support for running commands under root

Most of the checks run fine without root, but some of them may need to
do a mount test or access the data. Add the support to selectively run
commands under root, hardcoded to sudo for now.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>

diff --git a/tests/common b/tests/common
index 80a5381..84a4b9d 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/common
+++ b/tests/common
@@ -47,3 +47,18 @@ check_all_images()
                rm $i.restored
        done
 }
+
+# some tests need to mount the recovered image and do verifications call
+# 'setup_root_helper' and then check for have_root_helper == 1 if the test
+# needs to fail otherwise; using sudo by default for now
+sudo=
+have_root_helper=0
+export sudo
+export have_root_helper
+setup_root_helper()
+{
+       if [ $UID != 0 ]; then
+               sudo=sudo
+       fi
+       have_root_helper=1
+}