GNU bug report logs - #51857
cross-filesystem copying broken on macOS with coreutils >= 9.0

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Sudhip Nashi <sudhipnashi <at> icloud.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Sudhip Nashi <sudhipnashi <at> icloud.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 51857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>, Cameron Katri <me <at> cameronkatri.com>, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Subject: bug#51857: cross-filesystem copying broken on macOS with coreutils >= 9.0
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:40:31 -0600

> So, not only does macOS lseek disagree with all other implementations, it even disagrees with the Darwin documentation.
Oh wow, that’s convoluted.

> To work around this macOS problem I installed the attached further patch into Gnulib and propagated it into coreutils. Please try the latest coreutils version on Savannah, or you can simply run configure+make from the tarball that is temporarily at:
> 
> https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/coreutils-9.0.28-6d0f0.tar.gz
> <0001-lseek-port-around-macOS-SEEK_HOLE-glitch.patch>
It looks like this patch fixes the problem, and a quick checksum verifies this.
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