On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 01:20:20PM +0200, jhcha54008 wrote: >Hi, > >I noticed indeed a strange behavior of fakeroot in a sid chroot >when using an old kernel (stretch) : ls and stat are not faked >(ie they output the real owner and group instead of root) whereas >file works correctly : > ># file /dev/console > >outputs > >/dev/console: character special (5/1) > >May this be related (just guessing) to bug #940056 >"fakeroot does not fake statx()" and ls and stat >making use of statx since version 8.32 of coreutils >(uploaded 2020-06-22 in unstable) ? > >I hope it will help !
Ah, many thanks for debugging that! I've been struggling to find the time to look, but no joy recently. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
