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coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF

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Message #156 received at 10305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo <at> schmitz-digital.de>
To: "'Jim Meyering'" <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 'Paul Eggert' <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org,
	'Eric Blake' <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 10305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	"'Schmitz, Joachim'" <schmitz <at> hp.com>, nagendra.vs <at> hp.com
Subject: RE: bug#10305: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:13:00 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Meyering [mailto:jim <at> meyering.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 4:07 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: 'Paul Eggert'; bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org; nagendra.vs <at> hp.com;
> 10305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; 'Schmitz, Joachim'; 'Eric Blake'
> Subject: Re: bug#10305: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF
> 
> Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> 
> >> From: Jim Meyering [mailto:jim <at> meyering.net]
> >> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 3:48 PM
> >> To: Joachim Schmitz
> >> Cc: 'Paul Eggert'; 10305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org; 'Eric
> > Blake';
> >> 'Schmitz, Joachim'; nagendra.vs <at> hp.com
> >> Subject: Re: bug#10305: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF
> >>
> >> Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> >> ...
> >> > I just saw that my patch removed 2 functions more than your's, mine
> >> > also removes cache_stat_ok() and is_nondir_lstat().
> >> > Intention? Used where?
> >>
> >> Hah!  I should have temporarily defined-away "inline" to be sure I'd
> > removed
> >> all of them -- then gcc warns about each defined-but-not-used function.
> > I've
> >> just done that.  Those two in remove.c are the only ones in src/.
> >>
> >> As penance, I'll do this one for you, too.
> >
> > ;-) Thanks!
> >
> > Is anyone looking into my other patches too?
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> However, note that you're using an old version of coreutils.  In the
latest, su.c
> has been removed so you can drop the patches to that file.

Huh? 8.17 is old? It's the latest I could get and still has src/su.c.
Anyway, that patch isn't needed for NonStop anyway, as we need an entirely
different authentication method.

> If no one gets back to you on the other coreutils-specific pieces in two
or three
> weeks, please feel free to ping us at coreutils <at> gnu.org.

OK, I'll check, after my vacation.

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