I'd argue that, based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance, this
bug's Importance should be Medium. As described in the duplicate I
raised, things like automatically checking the success of a daily tar(1)
now fails because it always exits with a non-zero status instead of only
rarely:
For ~/.gvfs to not follow normal Unix semantics is a major pain. As
root, one can normally tar up a user's home directory, perhaps as part
of a daily backup regime, without problems. That's the point of running
it as root. Since the introduction of ~/.gvfs:
$ sudo tar cf /dev/null .gvfs .bash_profile
tar: .gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
$ echo $?
2
$
So checking the exit status of tar for any backups problems now fails.
Every day.
I'd argue tar is pretty core and it's having a medium or severe impact,
as outlined under Medium.
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Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225361
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