RE: coreutils-8.3: test failed: ls/stat-dtype and touch/no-dereference

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>> $3 = {d_ino    = 289015472,
>>       d_off    = 4096,
>>       d_reclen = 24,
>>       d_type   = 0 '\0',
>>       d_name = "s", '\0' <repears 254 times>}
> 
> Thanks.  That confirms what I suspected:
> your system's readdir sets d_type for directories,
> but not for symlinks.
> 
> What type of file system is that?

It's a rented virtual root server, so I can't choose
a different file system type:
  $ mount | grep " / "
  /dev/vzfs on / type reiserfs (rw,usrquota,grpquota)

Have a nice day,
Berny