Re: HFS+ Bug which causes coreutils "make test" to fail

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 22:56:14 EST


Martin Schaffner <schaffner@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm installing my system using an HFS+ partition as root.
> When I installed the GNU coreutils, I noticed that some test fail, even
> though they succeed on other fs such as ext2.
> I've tracked down one failure to the following:
>
> mkdir a; chmod 1777 a; touch a/b; su otheruser -c "rm -rf a"
>
> gives differing results. On ext2:
>
> rm: cannot remove 'a': Permission denied
>
> On HFS+:
>
> rm: reading directory 'a/b': Not a directory
> rm: cannot remove directory 'a': Directory not empty
>
>
> The other failure related to the fact that all pipe files are suffixed
> by "|", and all links by "@" when doing "ls -1F" on HFS+
>

What is the kernel version?
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