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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Vincent Zhang <vincent_chueng@hotmail.com>, 29231@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29231: 26.0.90; invald file name for symbolic files
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 15:21:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb69330d-417b-eaf2-51e2-a84b68d3dd1a@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171111182520.GA5075@breton.holly.idiocy.org>

Alan Third wrote:
> Only with symlinks faccessat returns success if it’s pointing to a
> file and you put ‘/’ on the end.

This is a well-known problem on macOS, and Emacs is supposed to compile a 
replacement fstatat function by building lib/fstatat.o and linking to that, and 
this replacement is supposed to implement the POSIX-required behavior where a 
trailing / works only on directories (or symlinks to directories, if following 
symlinks).

Evidently this replacement procedure is not working somehow. Please tell us 
whether the executable contains an fstatat workaround. You can do that via 
something like this:

$ gdb src/temacs
(gdb) disas rpl_fstatat

and I'd like to see the output of the 'disas' command.

Also, what are the values of the following macros in src/config.h? (The values 
on GNU/Linux are as shown.)

#define LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK 1
#define HAVE_FSTATAT 1
/* #undef HAVE_WORKING_FSTATAT_ZERO_FLAG */





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-11 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-09 17:41 bug#29231: 26.0.90; invald file name for symbolic files Vincent Zhang
2017-11-09 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10  2:49   ` Vincent Zhang
2017-11-10  8:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10 10:10       ` Vincent Zhang
2017-11-11  8:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 18:25           ` Alan Third
2017-11-11 19:00             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 23:21             ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-11-12  7:19               ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-12 12:09                 ` Alan Third
2017-11-13  2:53                   ` Vincent Zhang

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