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Re: chown --no-dereference broken in coreutils 6.3 ?
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: chown --no-dereference broken in coreutils 6.3 ? |
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Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:32:33 +0200 |
Matthew Burgess <address@hidden> wrote:
> Theodoros V. Kalamatianos wrote:
>> So glibc-2.5 does not have this issue ?
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> I've just run a build against glibc-2.5 (vanilla upstream sources) and
> not seen any test failures. This is running under Ubuntu's
> linux-2.6.15-27 kernel, in case it's a combination of kernel+libc that
> is triggering your failure.
FYI, it was most definitely a glibc problem, fixed sometime before 2.5.
Strace showed that the fchownat+AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW call was mistakenly
mapped (by glibc) to a chown call, and we all know that the chown syscall
follows symlinks.