bug#29886: tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail is failing with SIGBUS on Gentoo sparc

2018-07-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/07/18 10:05, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > >> Not sure if this is a kernel problem. Isn't test suite using >> LD_PRELOAD to pull in additional libraries which could cause >> such a breakage? > > You're right, it could be a library problem. The test suite's LD_PRELOAD >

bug#32127: RFE -- in the way "cp -rl" -- enable 'ln' to do likewise?

2018-07-14 Thread L A Walsh
Paul Eggert wrote: On 07/12/2018 02:16 AM, L A Walsh wrote: I'm asking why does 'ln' bother to tell the user that they are wrong and do nothing useful? Why not just go ahead and create a symlink The user didn't ask for a symlink, User didn't ask for a physical or hardlink (-P)