The coreutils test mkdir/p-3.sh currently fails on macOS, AFAICT as a result of the gnulib change:
e4399abd41 (savewd: port to native MS-Windows, 2024-08-27) The relevant part of the test is: mkdir no-access || framework_failure_ p=$(pwd) (cd no-access && chmod 0 . && mkdir -p "$p/a/b" u/v) 2> /dev/null test $? -eq 1 || fail=1 Essentially, if cwd lacks search permission, relative paths in the list passed to savewd_process_files end up resolved relative to the dir used to process any previous absolute path in the list.