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cp, ls, and mv bug: unknown error (252)

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Message #37 received at 6053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, "Callahan, Patrick M." <pat.callahan <at> gd-ais.com>,
	6053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>,
	Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6053: cp, ls, and mv bug: unknown error (252)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:16:29 +0100

On 09/08/10 15:46, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/10/2010 08:12 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 10/06/10 14:32, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> On 06/10/2010 07:22 AM, Callahan, Patrick M. wrote:
>>>>     if ((errno == ENOSYS || errno == EOPNOTSUPP)
>>>>     ...
>>>> You could get in a debugger and determine where
>>>> to add "|| errno == 252" to solve what appears to be
>>>> an HP-UX-and/or-cvfs-specific problem.
>>>>
>> Perhaps just changing to the more general ACL_NOT_WELL_SUPPORTED()
>> for HPUX is appropriate? I.E. could you test the following coreutils
>> patch Patrick?
>>
>> I left the solaris and cygwin code doing the explicit errno checks,
>> but suggest they also change to the more general check too.
>>
>>  diff ../gnulib/lib/copy-acl.c gnulib/lib/copy-acl.c
>> --- ../gnulib/lib/copy-acl.c    2010-03-03 11:23:22.000000000 +0000
>> +++ gnulib/lib/copy-acl.c       2010-06-10 14:10:19.000000000 +0000
>> @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@
>>
>>        if (count < 0)
>>          {
>> -          if (errno == ENOSYS || errno == EOPNOTSUPP)
>> +          if (ACL_NOT_WELL_SUPPORTED (errno))
>>              {
>>                count = 0;
>>                break;
>> @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@
>>      {
>>        int saved_errno = errno;
>>
>> -      if (errno == ENOSYS || errno == EOPNOTSUPP)
>> +      if (ACL_NOT_WELL_SUPPORTED (errno))
>>          {
>>            struct stat source_statbuf;
>>
>>
> 
> I haven't seen any response to this open issue - is this patch still
> okay to apply?
> 

Well without an appropriate system to test on I wouldn't apply it,
though it does seem like it would fix the reported issue.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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