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Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6 |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:22:10 +0200 |
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 mimics the
> link_follow fallback used on systems that lack linkat altogether, if linkat
> (,AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW) fails with EINVAL. And probably enable rpl_linkat
> unconditionally at configure time for Linux, for the benefit of people that
> compiled against newer headers but run against an older kernel; the
> replacement
> code would need a static variable that learns whether we expect success or
> failure, similar to how we've wrapped O_CLOEXEC support in recent modules when
> compiling against newer headers and older kernel.
>
> Jim, do you want to wait for me to get that done in gnulib, or do we just
> state
> that since 8.0 will be beta that it is a known bug which will be fixed for
> 8.1?
I'm ready to release today, and that failure is far enough out on
the fringe that I have no qualms.
This makes two known bugs. The fix for the other will be
always-required l?getfilecon wrappers to avoid segfaulting
on old-kernel-munged disks and/or old versions of libselinux.
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, (continued)
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Pádraig Brady, 2009/10/05
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Jim Meyering, 2009/10/05
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Eric Blake, 2009/10/05
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Jim Meyering, 2009/10/06
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Pádraig Brady, 2009/10/06
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Jim Meyering, 2009/10/06
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Pádraig Brady, 2009/10/06
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Simon Josefsson, 2009/10/06
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Paolo Bonzini, 2009/10/06
- Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6, Pádraig Brady, 2009/10/06
- areadlinkat (was: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6), Eric Blake, 2009/10/07
- Re: areadlinkat, Jim Meyering, 2009/10/07