Subject: Re: bug#21130: test fail: 'tests/ls/stat-failed'

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:09:11 -0400

On 07/25/2015 07:57 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> it seems that the returned type is always 'directory':
<...>
> Is the bug reproducible on a more-modern Linux kernel?
<...>
> If the bug doesn't appear in 3.2 or newer, I wouldn't worry about it.

Thanks for the pointer - on another machine with newer kernel (mounting the same NFS share) the reported type is 'unknown'.

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$  uname -a
Linux xxxx 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 6 11:36:42 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ ./src/ls -Log d
./src/ls: cannot access d/file: Permission denied
./src/ls: cannot access d/chardev: Permission denied
./src/ls: cannot access d/blockdev: Permission denied
./src/ls: cannot access d/s: Permission denied
total 0
?????????? ? ?            ? blockdev
?????????? ? ?            ? chardev
?????????? ? ?            ? file
?????????? ? ?            ? s
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