I just read about the correct way to report a bug or fix to the gnulib
developers. I have emailed them as below:
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 12:40
Subject: Suggested fix to mountlist.c: Define fuse.portal, devtmpfs and
squashfs mounts as dummy
To: bug-gnu...@gnu.org
Cc: juli...@ubuntu.com
Hi gnulib developers,
At present many gnulib users encounter this error:
Running 'df' as user (not root) causes results in output that includes
this error message:
"df: /run/user/1000/doc: Operation not permitted"
I would like to pass on to you a suggested fix:
@@ -164,7 +164,10 @@
#define ME_DUMMY_0(Fs_name, Fs_type) \
(strcmp (Fs_type, "autofs") == 0 \
+ || strcmp (Fs_type, "devtmpfs") == 0 \
+ || strcmp (Fs_type, "fuse.portal") == 0 \
|| strcmp (Fs_type, "proc") == 0 \
+ || strcmp (Fs_type, "squashfs") == 0 \
|| strcmp (Fs_type, "subfs") == 0 \
/* for Linux 2.6/3.x */ \
|| strcmp (Fs_type, "debugfs") == 0 \
Julian Klode, from Ubuntu, deserves credit for this suggested fix. He
published a patch that has been included in the Ubuntu Hirsute 21.04
package: coreutils 8.32-4ubuntu2. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-desktop-portal/+bug/19056232.
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/510003931/coreutils_8.32-4ubuntu1_8.32-4ubuntu2.diff.gz
I have cc'ed Julian in this email.
The patch addresses a problem that particularly affects gnulib users
with fuse.portal mounts, such as users who have installed Flatpak.
This is a significant problem for users who depend on df not returning
an error exit code in their scripts. Julian's bug report said:
"/run/user/1000/doc is a fuse.portal mount point, but statfs() return
EPERM, hence df produces an error message. Maybe statfs() is not
implemented, but it would be good to quieten this down (df even does
not allow me to ignore it, probably because it looks at statfs to find
out fs type, so my fs type ignoring doesn't work)."
This problem has also been reported on Fedora 32 here:
flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#512
Kind regards,
Daniel
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