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Re: unlink test failure on MacOS X
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Eric Blake |
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Re: unlink test failure on MacOS X |
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:09:45 -0600 |
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On 03/14/2010 06:16 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Jim, Eric,
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> On MacOS X 10.5, the unlink() and unlinkat() tests fail:
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> test-unlink.h:49: assertion failed
> /bin/sh: line 1: 17670 Abort trap EXEEXT='' srcdir='.'
> ${dir}$tst
> FAIL: test-unlink
Thanks for investigating. This has been reported on the coreutils list
before, but we have not had time to further deal with it.
> The reason is that unlink("..") returns 0 without having done any side effects
> on the file system. Likewise for unlink("../..").
Violation of POSIX, therefore a bug in MacOS. Gnulib should detect this
in the .m4 file, and work around it in the .c file (I believe I can make
the workaround lightweight enough to not penalize any other system).
I'm on travel through Tuesday, but will look into this on Wednesday if
Jim doesn't beat me to it.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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