Re: reporting bug for du program

[G. Vamsee Krishna]

Tried it. Program exited normally. Can you test it again on a different 
machine and post the information? I'm using coreutils-5.2.1, btw.

regards,
GVK


On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Arnaud M. wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've found a reproducible bug in 'du' program, if you need more information 
> to debug it, just ask me exactly what you need.
> 
> Arnaud M.
> 
> ---
> 
> $ gdb --args /usr/bin/du -sh *
> GNU gdb 6.1-debian
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols 
> found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
> 
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/du -sh Mail X11R6 both etc.tar.bz2 hom musique 
> mysql new.pl progra speedtouch-1.1.tar.bz2 speedtouch-1.1.tar.gz style.css
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...64M       Mail
> 336K    X11R6
> 1.5M    both
> 2.9M    etc.tar.bz2
> /usr/bin/du: `hom': Input/output error
> du: du.c:433: process_file: Assertion `(size_t) info->level == prev_level - 
> 1' failed.
> 
> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0x4004a721 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
> 
> Using strace, it reveals the I/O error :
> lstat64("16", 0xbfffe330)               = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
> 
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