Opened 2 years ago

Closed 2 years ago

#4992 closed enhancement (fixed)

add coreutils-9.0 chmod patch

Reported by: Xi Ruoyao Owned by: Bruce Dubbs
Priority: normal Milestone: 11.1
Component: Book Version: git
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description (last modified by Xi Ruoyao)

There is a bug in coreutils-9.0 causing chmod -R to return non-zero when the directory contains dangling symlinks. It's minor, but breaking one test script in glibc-2.35 (will be released soon) if the tests are run as a non-root user (so not affecting LFS). And it also has the potential to break other scripts with set -e (for example, jhalfs).

I've added the patch into patches repository, named coreutils-9.0-chmod_fix-1.patch.

Note that this patch is needed in both Chapter 6 and Chapter 8, because it will affect glibc test.

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Xi Ruoyao, 2 years ago

It does not break glibc test (in LFS), because the affected one, io/ftwtest, is skipped running as root.

comment:2 by Xi Ruoyao, 2 years ago

Maybe we can close this as WONTFIX then, but OTOH it's reported in {b,}lfs-dev several times and the upstream confirms it as a bug and has fixed it.

comment:3 by Xi Ruoyao, 2 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:4 by Bruce Dubbs, 2 years ago

Owner: changed from lfs-book to Bruce Dubbs
Status: new → assigned

comment:5 by Bruce Dubbs, 2 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Fixed at commit a5d31dd654840c3e5990fd1b3f29831b2cc01cf6 

Package updates and a patch.
    Add coreutils-9.0 chmod patch.
    Update to glibc-2.35.
    Update to linux-5.16.5.
    Update to findutils-4.9.0.
    Update to expat-2.4.4.
    Update to iana-etc-20220128.
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