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coreutils 9.0 sometimes gets spurious failures in chmod -R

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Daniel Schepler <dschepler <at> gmail.com>, 50784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50784: coreutils 9.0 sometimes gets spurious failures in
 chmod -R
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:02:56 +0100

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On 24/09/2021 20:29, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 24/09/2021 19:21, Daniel Schepler wrote:
>> After I upgraded my system (locally built) to coreutils 9.0, I noticed
>> that my lightly modified sbuild started getting build failures when it
>> tries to run "chmod -R g+w /<<BUILDDIR>>" (as root) in the chroot.
>> I'm not sure exactly what combination of files triggers the error, but
>> I'm able to reproduce it roughly as follows:
>>
>> cd /tmp
>> tar -x -f .../coreutils-9.0.tar.xz
>> cd coreutils-9.0
>> mkdir obj-x86_64-linux-gnu
>> cd obj-x86_64-linux-gnu
>> ../configure --prefix=/usr
>> make -j8
>> chmod -R u+w /tmp/coreutils-9.0/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu
>> echo $?
>>
>> In the last chmod command, there are no failures reported; and even if
>> I run it under strace, I see no hints of any failed system calls other
>> than one in access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) at startup -- and
>> certainly no failures in the fchmodat() system calls.  Yet the exit
>> code from the process is 1.
>>
>> I wasn't seeing any such errors under sbuild using coreutils 8.32.
> 
> Drats. I think it's determining ignoring symlinks as an error.
> Could you try with the following untested diff:
> 
> diff --git a/src/chmod.c b/src/chmod.c
> index 37b04f500..9ab60898d 100644
> --- a/src/chmod.c
> +++ b/src/chmod.c
> @@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ process_file (FTS *fts, FTSENT *ent)
>      if ( ! recurse)
>        fts_set (fts, ent, FTS_SKIP);
> 
> +  if (ch.status == CH_NOT_APPLIED)  /* For symlinks.  */
> +    ch.status = CH_NO_CHANGE_REQUESTED;
> +
>      return CH_NO_CHANGE_REQUESTED <= ch.status;
>    }

Tested equivalent patch is attached.

[chmod-fix-symlink-exit.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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