bug#10305: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF

[Jim Meyering]

Joachim Schmitz wrote:

>> From: Jim Meyering [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 3:48 PM
>> To: Joachim Schmitz
>> Cc: 'Paul Eggert'; address@hidden; address@hidden; 'Eric
> Blake';
>> 'Schmitz, Joachim'; address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: bug#10305: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF
>>
>> Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>> ...
>> > I just saw that my patch removed 2 functions more than your's, mine
>> > also removes cache_stat_ok() and is_nondir_lstat().
>> > Intention? Used where?
>>
>> Hah!  I should have temporarily defined-away "inline" to be sure I'd
> removed
>> all of them -- then gcc warns about each defined-but-not-used function.
> I've
>> just done that.  Those two in remove.c are the only ones in src/.
>>
>> As penance, I'll do this one for you, too.
>
> ;-) Thanks!
>
> Is anyone looking into my other patches too?

I don't know.

However, note that you're using an old version
of coreutils.  In the latest, su.c has been removed
so you can drop the patches to that file.

If no one gets back to you on the other coreutils-specific
pieces in two or three weeks, please feel free to ping us at
address@hidden