bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

[George Valkov]

> On 2023-02-24, at 5:43 PM, Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> wrote:
> 
> On 24/02/2023 14:33, George Valkov wrote:
>>> On 2023-02-24, at 12:23 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2/20/23 13:14, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> Since https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/commit/4db8db34
>>>> gnulib has been unconditionally replacing lseek() on macos.
>>>> Now with SEEK_DATA undefined that replaced lseek()
>>>> will run the code intended for BeOS.
>>>> So either the lseek.m4 or lseek.c needs adjusting accordingly.
>>> 
>>> Good catch, thanks. I updated the Gnulib patch accordingly; see attached.
>> Nice: I just downloaded a fresh copy of Savannah, and it already includes 
>> the attached patch, so no action needed on my side.
>> The copy created by cp is good. I noticed that you have added a —debug 
>> switch, so I gave it a test:
>> 1. If the target exists I get this output. I would assume zeroes means that 
>> all data is read from the source, but pages containing only zeroes are 
>> skipped, while pages containing data are written to the target, which is 
>> fine. I would guess 4 KB page granularity or some form of detection takes 
>> place.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
>> ./coreutils-2023-02-24/src/cp --debug cc1-mmap cc1-ori
>> 'cc1-mmap' -> 'cc1-ori'
>> copy offload: avoided, reflink: unsupported, sparse detection: zeros
>> 2. If the target does not exist, the file is cloned. You might want to 
>> report something about that in the debug output. Otherwise the clone is good.
>> ./coreutils-2023-02-24/src/cp --debug cc1-mmap cc1-ori
>> 'cc1-mmap' -> 'cc1-ori’
> 
> Yes that was a mistake.
> Should be fixed with
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=65bb27656

Looks good
commit 65bb2765646df18488b266e6c1851593d3f9c966

./coreutils-2023-02-24.b/src/cp --debug cc1-mmap cc1-ori 
'cc1-mmap' -> 'cc1-ori'
copy offload: unknown, reflink: yes, sparse detection: unknown


>> My first attempt to run the tests stopped here, so I had to interrupt it 10 
>> minutes later with Control+C.
> 
>> ^Cmake[1]: *** Deleting file 'tests/tail-2/inotify-race.log'
>> ^C^C^C^C^C^C
>> killall gdb
>> ps -A |grep gdb
>> 29584 ??         0:00.09 gdb -nx --batch-silent --eval-command=break 1475 
>> --eval-command=run --pid=29583 -f file --eval-command=quit tail
>> 23269 ttys010    0:00.09 gdb -nx --batch-silent --eval-command=break 1475 
>> --eval-command=run --pid=23268 -f file --eval-command=quit tail
>> killall -9 gdb
>> ps -A |grep gdb
>> Killing gdb allowed the tests to continue, I had to do it twice:
> 
> That's awkward.
> That test documents the issue with protecting the gdb invocation with 
> timeout(1).
> I suppose we could restrict this test to inotify capable systems,
> which would have the side effect of avoiding its use on non linux systems.
> The attached patch does that.

Still hanging out there after
PASS: tests/rm/isatty.sh

There were no gdb instances to kill, but if I press enter, it continues

empty-inacc.sh: set-up failure: 
ERROR: tests/rm/empty-inacc.sh
PASS: tests/rm/empty-name.pl
…

https://httpstorm.com/share/.openwrt/test/2023-02-06_coreutils-9.1/test-07-65bb2765646df18488b266e6c1851593d3f9c966-patch.txt


coreutils: git checkout cf80f988eeb97cc3f8c65ae58e735d36f865277b
gnulib: git checkout 32c16c45d7378b014d9aac6130104c4d02a9acdb

./bootstrap && ./configure && make clean && make -j 16
make check-TESTS # still hangs: gdb

git checkout -b cf80-macos-gdb-hang
git am < macos-gdb-hang.patch
make clean && make -j 16
make check-TESTS # completes successfully

Clone and configure another fresh copy; gnulib at master; test various 
coreutils commits, applying macos-gdb-hang.patch on top of them; make clean && 
make -j 16

cf80f988eeb97cc3f8c65ae58e735d36f865277b hangs:  gdb

I would suspect either some change in gnulib or some of the other repositories 
is causing these. I cannot checkout random gnulib commits, since the build 
breaks completely.

Check various commits of gnulib
gnulib 7352d9fec59398c76c3bb8a2ef86ba58818f0342 master hangs: ENTER
gnulib bb3fd10e6309f017618a12b2c10d3bfb813bfc08 hangs: ENTER
gnulib f77a31de60963c994cd9b42c8088be0e734962d7 aclocal-1.16: error: aclocal: 
file 'm4/build-to-host.m4' does not exist

Trying to revert some commits and go back in time:
git revert f77a31de60963c994cd9b42c8088be0e734962d7 fails
git revert 1e29238e40d118d4f769f7516700dd4fc494bfcd fails


> thanks for all the testing.

Look Pádraig, I’m glad to help, but this is really taking a lot of energy, 
these tests took another full day, and I’d be thankful if we can make 
everything work sooner. I’ve been spending many hours each day for a few weeks 
now. I need to finish my own tasks and find a job.

In the old build directory if I ./bootstrap && ./configure and make -j 16, the 
tests complete. It is using these checkpoints:
coreutils: git checkout cf80f988eeb97cc3f8c65ae58e735d36f865277b
gnulib: git checkout 32c16c45d7378b014d9aac6130104c4d02a9acdb

However if I clone a fresh copy ./bootstrap && ./configure, then check the same 
commits, ./configure again and make -j 16, I need to also apply your gdb patch, 
otherwise it hangs. And on master I need your patch and I need to press enter 
after PASS: tests/rm/isatty.sh.


Georgi Valkov
httpstorm.com
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