Re: patch for a race condition and a related bug in cp

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2007-02-02  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * tests/cp/parent-perm-race: Test for cp --preserve=mode race.

Thanks again.
I've separated the patches into two change sets.

I noticed that the code changed in cp.c's (make_dir_parents_private)
isn't exercised by any of the new tests.  I couldn't think of a way
to test it, either -- at least without resorting to the use of a
debugger -- since the only syscall between the mkdir and chmod is
an lstat of the just-created directory.