Thanks Pádraig, The link which discusses the issue for Flatpak users on Fedora 32 is: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/512 Sorry, it was not copied properly in my original email. All the best, Daniel
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 13:18, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > > On 13/02/2021 01:40, Daniel Bonner wrote: > > 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 > > 1. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-desktop-portal/+bug/19056232. > > 2. > > 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 > > > > I'll look into this in a bit more detail to see if it's general enough. > I.e. that there are no cases where these file system types may > have usable space. squashfs is read-only so that is probably ok. > > thanks! > Pádraig
