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FAIL: tests/du/bind-mount-dir-cycle --- patch attached

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Andrew Warshall <warshall <at> 99main.com>
Cc: 16189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>,
 Terry Bowling <tbowling <at> redhat.com>, jwk <at> redhat.com
Subject: Re: bug#16189: FAIL: tests/du/bind-mount-dir-cycle --- patch attached
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 02:35:15 +0000

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On 12/19/2013 01:43 AM, Andrew Warshall wrote:
> Hi-
> 
>    I'm resending this since it didn't seem to go through the first
>    time; also, I think I have a solution.
> 
>    This test fails on my system (Linux 3.7.10 kernel, glibc-2.17);
>    apparently "du a" is giving as output :
> 
> du: WARNING: Circular directory structure.
> This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system.
> NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER.
> The following directory is part of the cycle:
>   'a/b'
> 
>    instead of the expected
> 
> du: mount point 'a/b' already traversed
> 
>    Apparently, ./configure is assuming I don't have hasmntopt(), which
>    has become an issue because lib/mountlist.c now protects hasmntopt()
>    with #defines
> 
>    I've attached a patch, but I don't have autoconf; so someone who
>    does should test it before committing it.

CC'ing gnulib as that's where this check originates.
Also CC'ing interested parties from this related thread from today:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-12/msg00143.html

Thanks for the analysis and patch!

Pádraig.

[coreutils-8.22-hasmntopt.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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