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coreutils-8.32 fails to build on aarch64

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Kamil Dudka <kdudka <at> redhat.com>, 39929 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39929: coreutils-8.32 fails to build on aarch64
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 10:48:18 +0000

On 05/03/2020 21:43, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 3/5/20 9:39 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Ah well.
>> Does the attached address this for you.
> 
> Eeeuw.
> 
> Why is this code even there at all? If readdir(3) says that the current
> directory has no entries, shouldn't 'ls' just say that? Why should ls
> report an error simply because the current directory isn't reachable
> from the filesystem? Whether the current directory is unreachable has
> nothing to do with ls's job, which is to report whether the current
> directory has entries.

I'm not very attached to the new behavior so feel free to apply this.
As per the original discussion, the change was made to distinguish
unreachable directories from empty directories.
Unreachable dirs are not common, but it seems useful for the user
to know they're in one

cheers,
Pádraig

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