2 test failures

[Greg Schafer]

Hi

This is on i686-pc-linux-gnu against glibc-2.4 and applies to both coreutils
6.3 and 6.4.

IMPORTANT INFO - both failing tests pass when built aginst glibc-2.5 or if
coreutils is configured like this:

./configure ac_cv_func_openat=no

This suggests both failures are caused by bugs in glibc-2.4 so maybe this is
a useless bug report for the coreutils team. But then again, maybe coreutils
needs to work around glibc bugs?


The first test to fail (running as root) is:

tests/chown/basic (verbose log attached - log1.txt)

*** incidentally, the "check-root" target is a bit buggy because it doesn't
continue on in the event of failures even if you run "make -k check" as per
the docs ***


The second test to fail is:

tests/chgrp/basic (verbose log attached - log2.txt)

As an aside, the Debian utility "fakeroot" no longer works properly when
latest coreutils are built against glibc 2.4 or 2.5. It seems some of the
new *at() calls will need to be wrapped. Again, use the `./configure
ac_cv_func_openat=no' hack as a workaround.

Regards
Greg

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