Hi Felix,
Quoting Felix Geyer (2019-02-27 23:16:15)
> With those distro patches from version 8.30-2 mv fails on filesystems that
> don't
> support the renameat2 RENAME_NOREPLACE flag.
> I noticed this because coreutils 8.30-2 breaks autopkgtest with the qemu
> runner
> which calls mv on a 9p filesystem.
>
> renameatu.patch is the offender as it only changes renameat2() calls to
> renameatu()
> in lib/ but not in src/.
> As a result some tools call the glibc renameat2() instead of the gnulib one
> which
> has appropriate fallbacks.
> I haven't checked what other tools are exactly affected (calls are in mv.c,
> shred.c
> and copy.c).
>
> After an extended debugging session,
wow, that must've been a "fun" session until you figured out what was wrong!
Unfortunately, I'm still on holidays until March 3, so I cannot look into the
situation before then due to very limited internet access in the Swedish
mountains.
I'm sorry I missed this issue my patch created on filesystems that don't
support the RENAME_NOREPLACE flag. :(
cheers, josch
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