Re: coreutils-6.6 check failures on Itanium Linux

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Yes, both an error but different errors.  Can you reproduce the error
>> from the command line?  It would probably make further debugging
>> easier.
>
> I was able to find an ia64 machine running an old 2.4.19 kernel.  Not
> quite the same but I was able to reproduce the problem there.
>
>>   mkdir -p a/t b/t
>>   touch a/t/f
>>   strace -e file $builddir/src/mv b/t a
>
>   rename("b/t", "a/t")                    = -1 ENOTEMPTY (Directory not empty)
>
>> I think this problem will simply be one of kernel error message
>> differences in the different kernel versions.
>
> Yep.
>
>> That seems really strange.  If I read that right it collapses to a
>> very simple thing that should not be failing.
>>
>>   mkdir -p d/sub empty
>>   $builddir/src/mv -fT d empty
>>   strace -e file $builddir/src/mv -fT d empty
>
> Strace on linux-2.4.19 on an ext3 filesystem shows this:
>
>   rename("d", "empty")                    = -1 ENOTEMPTY (Directory not empty)
>
> While on linux-2.6.12:
>
>   rename("d", "empty")                    = 0

Hi Bob,

Thanks for investigating.
I don't think coreutils should try to work around this kernel/fs bug.
Do you know if this is fixed in later 2.4.x releases?  I sure hope so.