bug#11436: Please disable test cp/parent-perm-race on hurd-i386

2012-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, (From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670478 ) cp/parent-perm-race tries to copy a fifo with the --copy-contents option. The problem is that cp still uses O_NOFOLLOW in that case, strace shows: open("mode/fifo", O_RDONLY|O_NOFOLLOW) O_NOFOLLOW is actually normally meant

bug#11436: Please disable test cp/parent-perm-race on hurd-i386

2012-05-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/08/2012 12:38 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > (From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670478 ) > > cp/parent-perm-race tries to copy a fifo with the --copy-contents > option. The problem is that cp still uses O_NOFOLLOW in that case, > strace shows: > > open("mode/f

bug#11436: Please disable test cp/parent-perm-race on hurd-i386

2012-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Eric Blake, le Tue 08 May 2012 12:46:57 -0600, a écrit : > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html > O_NOFOLLOW > If path names a symbolic link, fail and set errno to [ELOOP]. > > I wouldn't object to yet another O_* flag that can be used to disable > translators,

bug#11436: Please disable test cp/parent-perm-race on hurd-i386

2012-05-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Samuel Thibault skribis: > Eric Blake, le Tue 08 May 2012 12:46:57 -0600, a écrit : >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html >> O_NOFOLLOW >> If path names a symbolic link, fail and set errno to [ELOOP]. >> >> I wouldn't object to yet another O_* flag that

bug#11436: Please disable test cp/parent-perm-race on hurd-i386

2012-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Samuel Thibault skribis: > >> Eric Blake, le Tue 08 May 2012 12:46:57 -0600, a écrit : >>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html >>> O_NOFOLLOW >>> If path names a symbolic link, fail and set errno to [ELOOP]. >>> >>> I wouldn't object to