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[Voelker, Bernhard]

Jim Meyering wrote
> I'm beginning to think there's a fundamental problem with your system.
> Here's the comparable part of truss output on a working Solaris 10
system:
...
> Remember, you did not compile with gcc.
> 
> Unless someone can suggest an alternative explanation,
> I'll have to assume this is not a problem with coreutils.

I got one last input for this case:

  CC     ginstall-install.o
"install.c", line 191: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of
range: -61952

Code:

 187 /* Return true for mode with non-permission bits. */
 188 static bool
 189 extra_mode (mode_t input)
 190 {
 191   const mode_t mask = ~S_IRWXUGO & ~S_IFMT;
 192   return input & mask;
 193 }

This line is expanded to this code by the preprocessor:

  const mode_t mask = ~ ( 00700 | 00070 | 00007 ) & ~ 0xF000 ;

mode_t is unsigned long on my system.

I added this test print:

  fprintf(stderr, "extra_mode(%ld) -> %ld\n", input, input & mask);

which leads to

  $ ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b
  extra_mode(1517) -> 1024
  extra_mode(1517) -> 1024
  extra_mode(33184) -> 0
  extra_mode(34285) -> 1024

Can this be the reason?

Have a nice day,
Berny