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Re: glibc-2.4 fchownat bug [Re: 2 test failures


From: Greg Schafer
Subject: Re: glibc-2.4 fchownat bug [Re: 2 test failures
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:25:18 +1000
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:50:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thanks for reporting that.
> Does your glibc-2.4 have any patches?
> What distribution?

Vanilla glibc-2.4 tarball with no patches. Self-built system.

> This bug was apparently fixed before 2.5, but I haven't tried to find
> out when.  I reported it against Ubuntu, because at the time it failed
> with their glibc-2.4, but not the one from upstream's rawhide, which
> was still glibc-2.4:
> 
>     https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/59083

Ok, just wanted to make sure you were aware of the issue which obviously you
are.

> > *** incidentally, the "check-root" target is a bit buggy because it doesn't
> > continue on in the event of failures even if you run "make -k check" as per
> > the docs ***
> 
> Thanks for running those tests as root.
> Distributions that track upstream glibc-2.4 should definitely
> look into fixing this.  It's a bug that can have serious consequences.

Agreed.

But what about the slightly buggy "check-root" target? Any thoughts on that?

Regards
Greg




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