Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-9.2.18-ffd62.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/04/2023 22:52, Sam James wrote:
> Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:
>
> > Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> writes:
> >
> > > We plan to release coreutils-9.3 in the coming week
> > > so any testing you can do on various different systems
> > > between now and then would be most welcome.
> > > This is a bug fix release coming about 3 weeks after the 9.2 release.
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------
> > >
> > > You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.7 MB) from:
> > >      https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
> > >
> > > And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
> > >      https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
> > >      MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = d208d306026fb42c128a787dffcba17a
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------
> > >
> > > To test follow this standard procedure:
> > >
> > >      tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
> > >      cd coreutils-9.2.18-ffd62/
> > >      ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
> > >
> > > Failures are reported, and details are in tests/test-suite.log
> > > Please report/attach any issues to coreutils@gnu.org
> >
> > I get one failure in tests/cp/backup-dir.sh inside our packaging:
>
> I see now you've caught this as a non-portable shell construct & fixed -
> thanks! So ignore this one, and see the failures below instead.
> > ```
> > + env cp --version
> > [...]
> > FAIL tests/cp/backup-dir.sh (exit status: 1)
> > ```
>
> These I can naturally still hit:
> > In another environment (same machine but this time running manually,
> > outside of our packaging, and on a ZFS filesystem instead of tmpfs),
> > I get two failures:
> >
> > 1. tests/cp/sparse-2.sh.log: http://sprunge.us/jOCSEr (unfortunately I
> > can't consistently reproduce this one)

This might be due to slightly different I/O patterns between cp and dd.
The log above suggests that cp is not inducing holes while dd is.
It would be useful to get both strace files from running the following on that 
ZFS filesystem

  cd coreutils-9.2.18-ffd62

  printf x>k
  dd bs=1k seek=1 of=k count=255 < /dev/zero

  strace -e cp.strace src/cp --reflink=never --sparse=always k k2

  hole_size=$(stat -c %o k2)
  strace -o dd.strace src/dd if=k of=k2.dd bs=$hole_size conv=sparse

> > 2. ./tests/misc/tty-eof.log: http://sprunge.us/yWNByM

perl's expect module seems to be getting spurious exitstatus for some commands.
I suspect a race, and there is a hardcoded 10s in that script.
There are various other issues in that script actually.
Hopefully the attached addresses this.

cheers,
Pádraig

coreutils-ttty-eof-fixes.patch
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