GNU bug report logs - #34894
Another solaris 10 ln issue on 8.31

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From: John Marino <gnugcc <at> marino.st>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Another solaris 10 ln issue on 8.31
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:35:16 -0500

After applying the recent patch to 8.31 ln to fix functionality on 
solaris 10, I saw some improvement but I think there's something else wrong.

e.g. # ln -s /raven/etc/fonts/conf.avail/50-user.conf .
ln: failed to create symbolic link '.': Invalid argument

I'm sure commands like that worked with version 8.30.

Regards,
John

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: John Marino <gnugcc <at> marino.st>, 34894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34894: Another solaris 10 ln issue on 8.31
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:28:47 -0700

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John Marino wrote:
> After applying the recent patch to 8.31 ln to fix functionality on solaris 10, I 
> saw some improvement but I think there's something else wrong.
> 
> e.g. # ln -s /raven/etc/fonts/conf.avail/50-user.conf .
> ln: failed to create symbolic link '.': Invalid argument

Thanks. Could you please try the attached patch, which I installed on master?

Also, please try running 'make check'. It should catch bugs like this.

[0001-ln-port-to-symlink-x-.-failing-with-EINVAL.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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From: John Marino <gnugcc <at> marino.st>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 34894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34894: Another solaris 10 ln issue on 8.31
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:17:42 -0500

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On 3/17/2019 15:28, Paul Eggert wrote:
> John Marino wrote:
>> After applying the recent patch to 8.31 ln to fix functionality on
>> solaris 10, I saw some improvement but I think there's something else
>> wrong.
>>
>> e.g. # ln -s /raven/etc/fonts/conf.avail/50-user.conf .
>> ln: failed to create symbolic link '.': Invalid argument
>
> Thanks. Could you please try the attached patch, which I installed on
> master?
>
> Also, please try running 'make check'. It should catch bugs like this.

Okay, that seems to fix the regression on ln.
I ran the test in a limited environment, which is why many of the tests 
were skipped.  However, there was one failure with tee you should look 
at (attached).

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU coreutils 8.31
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 616
# PASS:  405
# SKIP:  210
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

Regards,
John

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Message #14 received at 34894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: John Marino <gnugcc <at> marino.st>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 34894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34894: Another solaris 10 ln issue on 8.31
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:04:11 -0600

tags 34894 fixed
close 34894
stop

On 2019-03-17 3:17 p.m., John Marino wrote:
> On 3/17/2019 15:28, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> John Marino wrote:
>>> After applying the recent patch to 8.31 ln to fix functionality on
>>> solaris 10, I saw some improvement but I think there's something else
>>> wrong.
>>
>> Thanks. Could you please try the attached patch, which I installed on
>> master?

Installed here:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=3e0dff3925b5e521cae468087950e85b60002d1c

> Okay, that seems to fix the regression on ln.

Thanks for confirming, I'm closing this bug.

-assaf

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