Changeset e4b4c5a0 for chapter08/coreutils.xml

Timestamp:

07/01/2024 06:59:19 AM (3 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/clfs-ng

Children:

2b63974

Parents:

fe48a03 (diff), 201aa93 (diff)
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Message:

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/trunk' into xry111/clfs-ng

File:

• chapter08/coreutils.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter08/coreutils.xml

@@ -54 +54 @@
     </note>
 
-    <!-- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2024/q1/30 -->
-    <para>Fix a security vulnerability in the <command>split</command>
-    utility:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/n_out += n_hold/,+4 s|.*bufsize.*|//&amp;|' \
-    -i src/split.c</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
 
@@ -129 +122 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester . </userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Now run the tests:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"</userinput></screen>
-
-<!-- Sometimes skipped, but if not it may fail.
-     Please DO NOT remove or comment out this unless we can fully
-     understand it!  -->
-    <para>The test-getlogin test may fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
+    <!-- To editors: in jhalfs the standard input is always piped to "make"
+         so the test failures are not reproducible in jhalfs even if
+         running the build in a PTY.  Don't use jhalfs to test if we can
+         remove < /dev/null.  -->
+    <para>Now run the tests (using <filename>/dev/null</filename> for the
+    standard input, or two tests may be broken if building LFS in a
+    graphical terminal or a session in SSH or GNU Screen etc. because the
+    standard input is connected to a PTY from host distro, and the device
+    node for such a PTY cannot be accessed from the LFS chroot
+    environment):</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make -k RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check" \
+   &lt; /dev/null</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Remove the temporary group:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">groupdel dummy</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+       Two tests, <filename>tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh</filename> and
+       <filename>tests/mv/acl.sh</filename>, are known to
+       fail in the chroot environment, but pass in a complete system.
+    </para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>