Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > > chown will be harder, since there is no test-chown already written to > > start from. I'm starting to think I will have to use getgroups to see > > whether the current user has a supplementary group membership, since > > that's about the only observable suc

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Eric Blake on 11/10/2009 6:51 AM: >> rm a >> mkfifo b/ => mistakenly creates a >> >> So I've got a few more to go. For that matter, Solaris 9 has the same >> bugs for chmod and chown, but we don't have a chmod replacement yet. > > Here's what I'm applying

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/10/2009 6:51 AM: > rm a > mkfifo b/ => mistakenly creates a > > So I've got a few more to go. For that matter, Solaris 9 has the same > bugs for chmod and chown, but we don't have a chmod replacement yet. Here's

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/11/2009 6:21 AM: > I also discovered that readlink is broken on FreeBSD: > > $ touch a > $ ln -s a b > $ ln -s b c > $ readlink c/ > a => Oops - read the contents of b. I'm pushing this for readlink. - -- D

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/10/2009 6:51 AM: >> At least a couple more to go. I've confirmed that on FreeBSD: > > Also buggy: > > rm a > mkfifo b/ => mistakenly creates a Furthermore, FreeBSD and OpenBSD (and probably NetBSD, but I haven'

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/9/2009 2:30 PM: >> Let me know when you're done: maybe I'll make one more >> before the release. > > At least a couple more to go. I've confirmed that on FreeBSD: Also buggy: ln -s a b ln -s nowhere b/ => mistakenly c

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: >>> If I'd known this was coming so quickly, I would have delayed >>> making the coreutils snapshot. >>> >>> Let me know when you're done: maybe I'll make one more >>> before the release. >> >> At least a couple more to

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: >> If I'd known this was coming so quickly, I would have delayed >> making the coreutils snapshot. >> >> Let me know when you're done: maybe I'll make one more >> before the release. > > At least a couple more to go. I've confirmed that on Fr

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-09 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > If I'd known this was coming so quickly, I would have delayed > making the coreutils snapshot. > > Let me know when you're done: maybe I'll make one more > before the release. At least a couple more to go. I've confirmed that on FreeBSD: touch f ln -s f l

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Eric Blake on 11/2/2009 8:37 PM: >>> test-rename.h:141: assertion failed >> >> Looks like a case of BSD returning a non-standard errno, but where it is >> easier to teach the test one more errno to allow than to wrap the BSD bug. >> Now, if only I knew which errno

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/2/2009 8:37 PM: >> test-rename.h:141: assertion failed > > Looks like a case of BSD returning a non-standard errno, but where it is > easier to teach the test one more errno to allow than to wrap the BSD bug. > Now, if o

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/7/2009 5:12 PM: > Here's part of the difference - Solaris 9 mistakenly allows stat("file/") > and stat("link-to-file/") to succeed, while FreeBSD only allowed the > latter. Since the m4 test only covered the former, we wer

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/2/2009 8:37 PM: > According to Jim Meyering on 11/2/2009 2:18 PM: >> test-linkat.c:240: assertion failed > ... >> test-utimens.h:126: assertion failed > > These two failures look similar, in that they are both instances o

Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 11/2/2009 2:18 PM: > test-linkat.c:240: assertion failed ... > test-utimens.h:126: assertion failed These two failures look similar, in that they are both instances of the BSD kernel mistakenly succeeding when handed a sym

4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

2009-11-02 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, I haven't looked at all, yet... == GNU coreutils 8.0.79-71c2f8: gnulib-tests/test-suite.log == 4 of 178 tests failed. (2 tests were not run). .. contents:: :depth: 2