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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