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From: <Lasse.Forslund <at> sek.se>
To: <eblake <at> redhat.com>, <8328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#8328: touch core-dumps
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:20:17 +0100

Hi 

I uninstalled SMCcoreu VERSION:8.9 and installed VERSION:8.10.
Now touch works!

Thanks

Regards
Lasse Forslund

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake [mailto:eblake <at> redhat.com] 
Sent: den 23 mars 2011 18:44
To: 8328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Forslund, Lasse
Subject: Re: bug#8328: touch core-dumps

I didn't see the original in the mail list, just online:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8328

> We are using SMCcoreu VERSION:  8.9 on solaris 10 /usr/local/bin/touch 
> core-dumps
> 
> $>which touch
> /usr/local/bin/touch
> $ >cd /tmp
> $ >touch new_file
> Segmentation Fault
> 
> Regards

This is a known issue, related to recent Solaris additions of futimens support conflicting with gnulib workarounds for older utimens causing an infinite recursion.  It has been partially dealt with in coreutils 8.10 (if you configure from scratch on solaris 10, the problem should go away), and completely dealt with in coreutils.git (the next coreutils release will allow you to configure and build on solaris 9 and still run on solaris 10).

I'll leave this bug open until we have confirmation that this fixes the issue for you.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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