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bug#34876: [bug-coreutils] ln 8.31 on Solaris 10 is partially broken
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#34876: [bug-coreutils] ln 8.31 on Solaris 10 is partially broken |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 14:08:37 -0700 |
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On 16/03/19 11:27, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
>
>> touch foo bar && ls -ld foo bar && ln -f foo bar
>> ...
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:55 bar
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:55 foo
>> ln: failed to access 'bar/foo': Not a directory
>
> Thanks for reporting that. It's a serious error on Solaris 10, or on any
> platform lacking support for the O_DIRECTORY flag standardized in
> POSIX.1-2008.
>
> I installed the attached patch.
Looks good thanks.
> We should probably generate a new coreutils release soon.
Well not if just Solaris 10 is impacted I think.
Old FreeBSD may be affected, but I only see ln failures
on Solaris 10, from all the systems we tested on.
Anything Linux based had O_DIRECTORY since 1998.
thanks,
Pádraig