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27.0.50; Newest master can't run processes on macOS

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Message #76 received at 30350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag <at> dottedmag.net>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#30350: Build breakage of master on MacOS 10.13
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:31:15 +0100

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On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, at 22:29, Philipp Stephani wrote:
>  I'm saying that on OS X stat'ing /bin/zsh and /bin/zsh/ (or
>  /bin/zsh/.) gives different results:>> 
>>  % stat /bin/zsh
>>  16777220 721698 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 610288[1] "Feb  6 22:24:24
>>  2018" "Sep 21 06:35:23 2017" "Nov  6 13:34:29 2017" "Sep 21 06:35:23
>>  2017" 4194304 808 0x80020 /bin/zsh>>  % stat /bin/zsh/.
>>  stat: /bin/zsh/.: stat: Not a directory
>>  % stat /bin/zsh/
>>  stat: /bin/zsh/: stat: Not a directory
>>  %
> 
> That's the behavior required by POSIX, and Linux behaves in
> exactly the same way, so it's not something where we'd need to special-
> case macOS.
Ah, ignore me then, please :)


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