Forwarding this because I took it off-list by accident. ----- Forwarded message from Elias Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: Elias Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:46:42 +0100
To: Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: special-bits (Re: coreutils-6.9.90 fail 1/84 (help-version) on
i386-apple-darwin9.1.0)
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:26:21PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Elias Pipping wrote:
>
> Here is the failure, the "good parts" version:
>
> > * special-bits
> > ++ : nobody
> > +++ id -u nobody
> > ++ coreutils_non_root_uid=4294967294
> > + touch a b c
> > + chmod u+sx,go= a
> > + chmod u=rwx,g=sx,o= b
> > + chmod a=r,ug+sx c
> > + chown nobody .
> > + chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx .
> > + fail=0
> > + cp -p a a2
> > cp: `a': No such file or directory
> > + fail=1
>
> The touch and chmod created a file and set the mode bits but then cp
> is complaining that it does not exist. Can you run this set of
> commands?
>
> touch a
> chmod u+sx,go= a
> chown nobody .
> chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx .
> cp -p a a2
> ls -ld . a
# touch a
# chmod u+sx,go= a
# chown nobody .
# chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx .
# cp -p a a2
cp: `a': No such file or directory
# ls -ld . a
drwxr-xr-x 5 nobody staff 11288 2007-12-04 08:43 .
-rws------ 1 root staff 0 2007-12-04 08:43 a
run as root, with PATH=${PWD}
# cp --version
cp (GNU coreutils) 6.9.90
[ snip ]
> That should fail the same as the test case. If it does then the ls
> should report what was actually created and the permission of the
> directory. I expect to see something like this:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root 4096 2007-12-03 20:21 .
> -rws------ 1 root root 0 2007-12-03 20:21 a
>
> In which case the "No such file or directory" error is very strange.
> The touch and chmod succeeded operating on the file but the cp failed
> to open it?
>
> Bob
-- Elias
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