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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fchmodat, lchmod: port to buggy Linux filesystems
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:56:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d21d85b-975d-f67c-d555-e41abf44743b@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2690728.gVUGnRkd8D@omega>

On 2/23/20 2:58 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> the file doc/glibc-functions/lchmod.texi still says
> 
>    ...
>    This function always fails with @code{errno} set to @code{ENOSYS},
>    even when the file is not a symbolic link:
>    GNU/Linux with glibc 2.31.
> 
> Overriding the system's lchmod function requires the case REPLACE_LCHMOD=1.

Hmm, why? 'configure' says that GNU/Linux functions that always fail with 
errno==ENOSYS do not exist, i.e., 'configure' sets HAVE_LCHMOD=0 on GNU/Linux. 
This convention is used often by Autoconf and Gnulib. And if HAVE_LCHMOD=0 why 
would we want REPLACE_LCHMOD=1?


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-23 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13 18:42 [PATCH] fchmodat, lchmod: port to buggy Linux filesystems Paul Eggert
2020-02-14  3:29 ` Bruno Haible
2020-02-16 17:24   ` Bruno Haible
2020-02-16 18:31     ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-16 18:58       ` Bruno Haible
2020-02-14  3:46 ` Bruno Haible
2020-02-14 21:02   ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-16 21:38     ` Bruno Haible
2020-02-16 22:28       ` Bruno Haible
2020-02-22 23:46       ` Bruno Haible
2020-02-23  8:15         ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-23 10:58           ` Bruno Haible
2020-02-23 23:56             ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-02-24  2:27               ` overriding glibc stub functions Bruno Haible
2020-02-24  7:44                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-23  1:35 ` [PATCH] fchmodat, lchmod: port to buggy Linux filesystems Bruno Haible
2020-02-23  7:22   ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-09 17:30 ` Pádraig Brady
2020-03-09 18:51   ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-09 23:45     ` Pádraig Brady
2020-03-10 11:52       ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-10 15:09         ` Kamil Dudka
2020-03-10 19:27         ` Pádraig Brady
2020-03-10 19:30           ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-11  8:03             ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-11  8:45               ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-11 16:04                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-11  8:25             ` Paul Eggert
2020-03-11  8:40               ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-11  9:04             ` Kamil Dudka
2020-03-11 16:36               ` Paul Eggert

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