Subject: Re: bug#78509: Coreutils' mv and cp 9.5 do not work properly on old PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger

From: Peter Dyballa <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 21:57:14 +0200

> Am 24.05.2025 um 21:33 schrieb Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>:
> 
> Can you verify that a simple program like the following triggers this macOS bug? If so, we might be able to work around it.

The output is: "O_DIRECTORY incorrectly succeeded!"

> You may need to munge this program a bit to get it to compile and illustrate the bug on macOS.

What does "to munge" mean? No printed dictionary or online translator is able to tell me what it is meaning in German. I first saw it over 40 years ago. Then a utility of ispell had this name…

O_DIRECTORY is #define'd in /usr/include/sys/fcntl.h:

    139 #ifndef _POSIX_C_SOURCE
    140 #define O_DIRECTORY    0x100000
    141 #endif

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Greetings

  Pete

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