bug#48106: closed (bug: touch utility does not handle file create error properly)

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regarding bug: touch utility does not handle file create error properly
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> bug: touch utility does not handle file create error properly
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> Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:23:47 +0200
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> hello,
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> touch utility telling weird error on file creation on a immutable/ro dir.
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> apparently, it does not catch/report the first error (EPERM) but only
> the second one (ENOENT), when trying to set the time on the non-existing
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> regards
> roland kletzing
> sysadmin
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> root@s900:/tmp# mkdir /tmp/test
> root@s900:/tmp# chown 0400 /tmp/test/
> root@s900:/tmp# chattr +i /tmp/test
> root@s900:/tmp# touch /tmp/test/testfile
> touch: setting times of '/tmp/test/testfile': No such file or directory
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> root@s900:/tmp# strace touch /tmp/test/testfile 2>&1 |grep -i test
> execve("/usr/bin/touch", ["touch", "/tmp/test/testfile"], 0x7ffe690abb88
> /* 19 vars */) = 0
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/test/testfile",
> O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK, 0666) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> utimensat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/test/testfile", NULL, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> file or directory)
> write(2, "setting times of '/tmp/test/test"..., 37setting times of
> '/tmp/test/testfile') = 37
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> # touch  --version
> touch (GNU coreutils) 8.30
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> (on debian 10.9)
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#48106: bug: touch utility does not handle file create error properly Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 15:48:43 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1

Thanks for reporting the problem. I installed the attached to fix it.

0001-touch-fix-wrong-diagnostic-Bug-48106.patch
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