RE: [coreutils] coredump segmentation fault using coreutils 6.4 sparc solaris using mv or touch

[Howell Hughes]

Many thanks for your reply Eric, much appreciated. I'll install that and check 
it.




Howell Hughes





-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden] 
Sent: November-23-10 3:29 PM
To: Howell Hughes
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [coreutils] coredump segmentation fault using coreutils 6.4 sparc 
solaris using mv or touch

On 11/23/2010 08:17 AM, Howell Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I have installed coreutils coreutils-6.4-sol10-sparc-local.gz package 
> SMCcoreu, but using /usr/local/bin/mv or /user/local/bin/touch causes a 
> coredump segmentation fault.

Known issue, and fixed in coreutils 8.7.

> 
> Do we need to upgrade to a newer version of coreutils

Yes.  Oracle's latest kernel patches to Solaris exposed a latent bug that had 
been hiding in earlier coreutils releases when it comes to setting file 
timestamps.

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