From: Carlos Ramos Carreño <vnmabus@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:14:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: syscall: skip testAmbientCaps tests if there is no nobody user
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syscall: skip testAmbientCaps tests if there is no nobody user

When there is not a nobody user (for example inside Docker), the
tests TestAmbientCaps and TestAmbientCapsUserns should be skipped
instead of failing.

Fixes #71644

Change-Id: I7f92db19e2b6f449d8d897650a0ecd89f5150f4a
GitHub-Last-Rev: a4c4f5bb61929b4981dc0b92d773bd4ef13d7d3d
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#71729
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/649396
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Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
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Reviewed-by: Carlos Amedee <carlos@golang.org>
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diff --git a/src/syscall/exec_linux_test.go b/src/syscall/exec_linux_test.go
index 1c2024af45..04973dc9ad 100644
--- a/src/syscall/exec_linux_test.go
+++ b/src/syscall/exec_linux_test.go
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ func testAmbientCaps(t *testing.T, userns bool) {
 
 	u, err := user.Lookup("nobody")
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
+		t.Skip("skipping: the nobody user does not exist; see Issue 71644")
 	}
 	uid, err := strconv.ParseInt(u.Uid, 0, 32)
 	if err != nil {