On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
"Theodoros V. Kalamatianos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just downloaded coreutils-6.3 and the testsuite fails in chown/basic:
...
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/coreutils-6.3/tests/chown'
...
++ ls -n slink
+ set _ lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 1 Oct 3 12:08 slink '->' f
+ shift
+ test 0:0 = 0:1
+ fail=1
Thank you for reporting that.
This is not a bug in the coreutils.
Rather, you may be using a buggy version of glibc.
I reported a month ago that the underlying problem
affects Ubuntu/edgy's version of glibc 2.4:
Yet another glibc bug I stumbled on... seems to be happening a lot
lately...
Subject: fchownat ignores AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-September/093218.html
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/59083
Status: Unconfirmed
Importance: Undecided(!)
I verified by hand that chown --no-dereference 6.3 does not work, while
the one from coreutils-5.97 is fine. My system is a linux-2.6.17 system
with glibc-2.4.
Please specify _which_ glibc-2.4 and linux-2.6.17, if you didn't
build them from pristine sources.
Both were built from vanilla sources. glibc was slightly patched to fix
some nscd issues and an irritating gconv bug - nothing that would affect
one of the chown functions AFAICT.
FYI, this doesn't affect upstream glibc, since the tests have passed
on rawhide with both 2.6.17 and 2.6.18.
So glibc-2.5 does not have this issue ? If so then I'll try updating to
that one...
Thanks for the fast reply,
Theodoros Kalamatianos
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