Re: coreutils-8.29 released [stable]

[Michael]

On 02/01/2018 14:32, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 02/01/18 10:40, Michael wrote:
> > * FAIL: tests/cp/preserve-mode
> >
> > Details:
> >
> > I assume this is what 'fails'
> >
> > ++ cut -b-10
> > + test drwxr-sr-x = drwxr-xr-x
> > + fail=1
> This test was present but ineffective in previous releases.
> It's indicating a disparity in the setgid bit
> which is propagated with mkdir, but not cp --no-preserve=mode.
> A quick test on ext4 on linux here shows that cp does propagate
> the setgid bit, so I'd need to dig more to find the disparity.
>
> cp uses the gnulib set_acl() functionality here,
> and there are AIX specific code paths there,
> so I presume this is what clears the setgid bit erroneously.
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig

An example - and actually, what I would expect if I am saving to 'not 
preserve' file mode.

root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]cp --no-preserve=mode *29 x1
cp: -r not specified; omitting directory 'coreutils-8.29'
root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]cp -r --no-preserve=mode *29 x1
[1] + Stopped (SIGTSTP)        cp -r --no-preserve=mode *29 x1
root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]bg
[1]     cp -r --no-preserve=mode *29 x1&
root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]ls -l
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 14  199   1954 4096 Jan  2 12:28 coreutils-8.29
drwxr-xr-x 11 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:04 x1

This behavior is the same as AIX default behavior

root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]/usr/bin/cp -r *29 x2 &
[1]     11141360
root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]ls -l
total 12
drwxrwsr-x 14  199   1954 4096 Jan  2 12:28 coreutils-8.29
drwxr-xr-x 14 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:04 x1
drwxr-xr-x  8 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:07 x2

* However, this last behavior is very different from the AIX behavior

Coreutils cp -rp ...

root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]/opt/bin/cp -rp *29 x3 &
[2]     14352582
[1] -  Done                    /usr/bin/cp -r *29 x2 &
root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]ls -l
total 16
drwxrwsr-x 14  199   1954 4096 Jan  2 12:28 coreutils-8.29
drwxr-xr-x 14 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:04 x1
drwxr-sr-x 14 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:07 x2
drwx------  6 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:08 x3
root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]umask
022

*** Actually, I see I need to wait - in both cases - for cp to finish, 
before comparing source and target.

root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]ls -l
total 20
drwxrwsr-x 14  199   1954 4096 Jan  2 12:28 coreutils-8.29
drwxr-xr-x 14 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:04 x1
drwxr-sr-x 14 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:07 x2
drwxrwsr-x 14  199   1954 4096 Jan  2 12:28 x3
drwxrwxr-x 13 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:10 x4
root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]wait
ls -l
[1] +  Done                    /usr/bin/cp -rp *29 x4 &
root@x072:[/home/prj/gnu]ls -l
total 20
drwxrwsr-x 14  199   1954 4096 Jan  2 12:28 coreutils-8.29
drwxr-xr-x 14 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:04 x1
drwxr-sr-x 14 root system 4096 Jan  2 15:07 x2
drwxrwsr-x 14  199   1954 4096 Jan  2 12:28 x3
drwxrwsr-x 14  199   1954 4096 Jan  2 12:28 x4