Re: coreutils-9.4.170-7b206 ls/removed-directory test failure

[Pádraig Brady]

On 26/03/2024 17:08, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 3/26/24 10:50, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > It seems that readdir() on FreeBSD 14 is _not_ eating the ENOENT from
> > getdirentries().
> > Attached is an extra check for that, that avoids the test in that case.
> >
> > An alternative would be for ls to ignore the ENOENT from readdir().
> > Paul what do you think?
>
> My quick reaction is that your patch is good. This is an area where the
> FreeBSD behavior is reasonable and when coreutils is in Rome we might as
> well do what the Romans do.

Right. Actually the FreeBSD system ls(1) does _not_ show the error in this case
(it doesn't use readdir I think). So I'm not leaning towards GNU ls
just eating the ENOENT which simplifies the test and makes both
ls implementations behave the same in this regard.

cheers,
Pádraig