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

[Martin Schaffner]

On 18.11.2004, at 04:52, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 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?

Sorry for forgetting to write this; it was linux-2.6.8.1.

Today, I retested with linux-2.6.10-rc2, and found  out that both 
failures happen with this version, too.

Here's part of the log from the second failure:
make[3]: Entering directory `/native/coreutils-5.2.1/tests/ls'
make  check-TESTS
make[3]: Entering directory `/native/coreutils-5.2.1/tests/ls'
PASS: inode
PASS: dangle
out2 exp2 differ: char 21, line 3
3c3
< fifo
---
> fifo|
5,7c5,7
< slink-dangle
< slink-dir
< slink-reg
---
> slink-dangle@
> slink-dir@
> slink-reg@
FAIL: file-type
PASS: recursive
PASS: dired
...
1 of 12 tests failed

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