Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes:
The patch copies from areadlink.c, as well as link_follow earlier in
linkat.c, to create two new fd-relative helpers. For now, I didn't see
any reason to expose them, but areadlinkat may someday be worth making
into a full-blown module.
Further looking
Eric Blake wrote:
Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com writes:
ln: creating hard link `hardlink' = `symlink': Invalid argument
`man linkat` says that AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW is only supported since 2.6.18
and my FC5 system is 2.6.17
Bingo. For FC5, I need to implement rpl_linkat in gnulib, which
Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Pádraig Brady on 10/5/2009 3:53 PM:
This is a new test, but FC5 is s old,
that I'm not sure it's worth worrying about.
March 2006?
The failure is probably a function of the kernel.
Which is it?
In summary this is what fails:
$ touch
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Pádraig Brady on 10/5/2009 3:53 PM:
This is a new test, but FC5 is s old,
that I'm not sure it's worth worrying about.
March 2006?
The failure is probably a function of the kernel.
Which is it?
In summary this is
On 10/06/2009 11:05 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Also a minor nit in s/Linux/Gnu\/Linux/
Definitely not when it's talking explicitly of a kernel version?
Paolo
Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Pádraig Brady on 10/5/2009 3:53 PM:
This is a new test, but FC5 is s old,
that I'm not sure it's worth worrying about.
March 2006?
The failure is probably a function of the kernel.
Which is
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 10/06/2009 11:05 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Also a minor nit in s/Linux/Gnu\/Linux/
Definitely not when it's talking explicitly of a kernel version?
Right, it could be GNU/Linux or Linux kernels? (.*)?
cheers,
Pádraig.
Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com writes:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Pádraig Brady on 10/5/2009 3:53 PM:
This is a new test, but FC5 is s old,
that I'm not sure it's worth worrying about.
March 2006?
The failure is
Passed Skipped Failed
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Fedora core 5 x86 | 352 43 1
Fedora 11 x86 | 351 45 0
Solaris 10 x86| 334 62 0
Solaris 9 x86| 331
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Passed Skipped Failed
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Fedora core 5 x86 | 352 43 1
Fedora 11 x86 | 351 45 0
Solaris 10 x86| 334 62 0
Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Passed Skipped Failed
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Fedora core 5 x86 | 352 43 1
Fedora 11 x86 | 351 45 0
Solaris 10 x86| 334
Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com writes:
FC5 test failure:
ln/hard-to-sym
ln -P -L symlink3 hard-to-a
ln: creating hard link `hard-to-a' = `symlink3': Invalid argument
I'd be interested in the strace of
ln -P -L symlink3 hard-to-a
as well as 'grep LINK_FOLLOWS config.log'. It
Eric Blake wrote:
Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com writes:
FC5 test failure:
ln/hard-to-sym
ln -P -L symlink3 hard-to-a
ln: creating hard link `hard-to-a' = `symlink3': Invalid argument
I'd be interested in the strace of
ln -P -L symlink3 hard-to-a
attached
as well as
Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com writes:
__xstat64(3, symlink,
0xbfee893c) = 0
linkat(-100, 0xbfee8d3e, -100, 0xbfee8d46,
1024)= -1
stat64(symlink, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
connect(-100,
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Jim Meyering on 10/3/2009 2:30 AM:
There have been *many* changes in gnulib since the previous snapshot,
and the changes in coreutils are non-negligible, so please give
this a try. I'd like to make the beta release on Monday.
I'll probably call it
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According to Jim Meyering on 10/4/2009 2:10 AM:
readlink -f link/
succeeds, with the claim that 'mkdir link/' will also succeed, we should
make sure of that.
Yes, adding a test would be good.
Such a test would be expected to fail on Linux.
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According to Eric Blake on 10/4/2009 8:29 AM:
If you feel like addressing that right away, that would
be great. Otherwise, I think it's safe to say that no one
will complain if it is deferred until 8.1.
At this point, it's enough of a corner
There have been *many* changes in gnulib since the previous snapshot,
and the changes in coreutils are non-negligible, so please give
this a try. I'd like to make the beta release on Monday.
I'll probably call it coreutils-8.0.
coreutils snapshot:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz
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According to Jim Meyering on 10/3/2009 2:30 AM:
There have been *many* changes in gnulib since the previous snapshot,
and the changes in coreutils are non-negligible, so please give
this a try. I'd like to make the beta release on Monday.
I'll
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