From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262388AbUKRDyA (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:54:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262396AbUKRDx7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:53:59 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:36762 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262388AbUKRDxM (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:53:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:52:36 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Martin Schaffner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel Subject: Re: HFS+ Bug which causes coreutils "make test" to fail Message-Id: <20041117195236.475d0922.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin Schaffner 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?