"Theodoros V. Kalamatianos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems that my distribution (Mandrake 10.1) in the high security
> mode restricts access to /proc,
Thanks for tracking that down. Does the following patch fix things
for you?
2005-10-30 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/utimens.c (futimens) [HAVE_WORKING_UTIMES &&
HAVE_FUTIMES]: Don't assume that futimes failing with errno ==
EACCES means we must fail. With /proc mounted, paranoid
distributions like Mandrake 10.1 in high security mode don't
allow ordinary users to read /proc, so futimes fails with
errno == EACCES. Problem reported by Theodoros
V. Kalamatianos.
--- lib/utimens.c.~1.10.~ 2005-09-26 15:15:28.000000000 -0700
+++ lib/utimens.c 2005-10-30 01:45:21.000000000 -0800
@@ -100,11 +100,13 @@ futimens (int fd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
return 0;
/* On GNU/Linux without the futimes syscall and without /proc
- mounted, glibc futimes fails with errno == ENOENT. Fall back
- on utimes if we get a weird error number like that. */
+ mounted, glibc futimes fails with errno == ENOENT. And with
+ /proc mounted, some paranoid distributions don't allow
+ ordinary users to read /proc, so futimes fails with errno ==
+ EACCES. Fall back on utimes if we get an error number like
+ that. */
switch (errno)
{
- case EACCES:
case EIO:
case EPERM:
case EROFS:
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