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test fail: 'tests/ls/stat-failed'

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 21130-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21130: test fail: 'tests/ls/stat-failed'
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 11:05:29 +0000

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On 24/07/15 22:46, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> checking coreutils 8.24, running on NFS, the test 'ls/stat-failed' fails (log attached).
> 
> If I understand correctly,
> The test creates a symlink to a directory then removes execute permissions:
>     mkdir d
>     ln -s / d/s
>     chmod 600 d
> 
> Then tries to dereference it:
>      $ ls -Log d
>      ls: cannot access d/s: Permission denied
>      total 0
>      d????????? ? ?            ? s
> 
> The test expect 's' to have 'l' type, on my system it is 'd'.
> 
> The attached patch avoids the failure, though I don't know if this is correct or not (perhaps this failure should not be avoided?).
> 
> The system is:
>      $ uname -a
>      Linux XXX 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>      $ gcc --version
>       gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)
> 
> The file system is NFS.

False failure documented and avoided in the attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

[stat-false-fail.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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