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/dev/stdin problem in cp on Solaris

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From: jakub.kulik <at> oracle.com
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: /dev/stdin problem in cp on Solaris
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 12:24:17 +0200

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Hi,

We found out that the following simple command fails on Solaris with:

 cat srcfile.txt | /usr/gnu/bin/cp /dev/stdin dstfile.txt
 cp: skipping file '/dev/stdin', as it was replaced while being copied

I found that problem is with SAME_INODE macro. It accepts two 
structures, one from stat and another from fstat function. On Solaris, 
each of these can return a different thing. While stat returns 
information about the /dev/fd/0 file itself (linked by /dev/stdin), 
fstat knows much more from the file descriptor and returns info about 
the pipe that is being used. That results in SAME_INODE failing.

This happens in both Coreutils 8.30 and 8.31 (both intel and sparc) but 
it looks like it was seen first in 8.16.

The easiest fix to this issue I came up with is to disable SAME_INODE 
validation for special devices and pipes (as they won't be moved 
anyway). Patch is attached as well as small program that can show stat 
and fstat differences on Solaris.

Thanks
Jakub

[copy.c.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[stdin_test.c (text/x-csrc, attachment)]

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