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

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Volker, you can diagnose this by stepping through ls.c's print_dir
> function, doing "print *next" for each entry.

see attached.

> One of those three will be the entry for d/s (others are usually
> "." and "..") and we care about the direct.d_type member.

Strangely, I got one for ".", "..", and one "" (d_name = '\0').

> You can see that 10 corresponds to DT_LNK:
>
>  (gdb) p (int)DT_LNK
>  $5 = 10

I got the same:
  (gdb) print (int)DT_LNK
  $7 = 10

> Since the code appears to work as intended with DT_DIR, perhaps
> your system (or file system) lacks DT_LNK support?

How can I check?

Thank you and have a nice day,
Berny

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