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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated (experimental): coreutils-8.23-3


On 09/29/2014 03:02 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>> This build is also the first against the
>> new ACL rules of cygwin1.dll, so there may be some oddities in ls as a
>> result.
> 
> That hunch proved to be correct, but it is cp and not ls that is affected:
> 
>> cp -vr gnuplot.x86_64/dist/gnuplot /mnt/mirror/patch/x86_64/release/
> cp: cannot create directory â/mnt/mirror/patch/x86_64/release/gnuplotâ: File
> exists
>> getfacl /mnt/mirror/patch/x86_64/release/gnuplot
> # file: /mnt/mirror/patch/x86_64/release/gnuplot
> # owner: share-owner
> # group: Domain Users
> user::---
> group::---
> group:share-adm:rwx
> mask:rwx
> other:---
> default:user::---
> default:group::---
> default:group:share-adm:rwx
> default:mask:rwx
> default:other:---
> 
> The user doing this operation is member of share-adm, but not the
> share-owner.  It seems that cp is deciding that the (existing) directory
> should be newly created, which of course fails.  Reverting to both 8.23-2 or
> 8.15-3 fixes that problem.

Can you give me a simple self-contained script that creates all
necessary prerequisites before attempting the failing 'cp', to help me
in trying to reproduce what is going differently here?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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