Patch taken from upstream to fix cross-compilation for aarch64. This can be removed on the next coreutils release. From 10fcb97bd728f09d4a027eddf8ad2900f0819b0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 17:25:29 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ls: restore 8.31 behavior on removed directories * NEWS: Mention this. * src/ls.c: Do not include (print_dir): Don't worry about whether the directory is removed. * tests/ls/removed-directory.sh: Adjust to match new (i.e., old) behavior. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ src/ls.c | 22 ---------------------- tests/ls/removed-directory.sh | 10 ++-------- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fdc8bf5db..653e7178b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** Changes in behavior + + On GNU/Linux systems, ls no longer issues an error message on + directory merely because it was removed. This reverts a change + that was made in release 8.32. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.32 (2020-03-05) [stable] diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c index 24b983287..4acf5f44d 100644 --- a/src/ls.c +++ b/src/ls.c @@ -49,10 +49,6 @@ # include #endif -#ifdef __linux__ -# include -#endif - #include #include #include @@ -2896,7 +2892,6 @@ print_dir (char const *name, char const *realname, bool command_line_arg) struct dirent *next; uintmax_t total_blocks = 0; static bool first = true; - bool found_any_entries = false; errno = 0; dirp = opendir (name); @@ -2972,7 +2967,6 @@ print_dir (char const *name, char const *realname, bool command_line_arg) next = readdir (dirp); if (next) { - found_any_entries = true; if (! file_ignored (next->d_name)) { enum filetype type = unknown; @@ -3018,22 +3012,6 @@ print_dir (char const *name, char const *realname, bool command_line_arg) if (errno != EOVERFLOW) break; } -#ifdef __linux__ - else if (! found_any_entries) - { - /* If readdir finds no directory entries at all, not even "." or - "..", then double check that the directory exists. */ - if (syscall (SYS_getdents, dirfd (dirp), NULL, 0) == -1 - && errno != EINVAL) - { - /* We exclude EINVAL as that pertains to buffer handling, - and we've passed NULL as the buffer for simplicity. - ENOENT is returned if appropriate before buffer handling. */ - file_failure (command_line_arg, _("reading directory %s"), name); - } - break; - } -#endif else break; diff --git a/tests/ls/removed-directory.sh b/tests/ls/removed-directory.sh index e8c835dab..fe8f929a1 100755 --- a/tests/ls/removed-directory.sh +++ b/tests/ls/removed-directory.sh @@ -26,20 +26,14 @@ case $host_triplet in *) skip_ 'non linux kernel' ;; esac -LS_FAILURE=2 - -cat <<\EOF >exp-err || framework_failure_ -ls: reading directory '.': No such file or directory -EOF - cwd=$(pwd) mkdir d || framework_failure_ cd d || framework_failure_ rmdir ../d || framework_failure_ -returns_ $LS_FAILURE ls >../out 2>../err || fail=1 +ls >../out 2>../err || fail=1 cd "$cwd" || framework_failure_ compare /dev/null out || fail=1 -compare exp-err err || fail=1 +compare /dev/null err || fail=1 Exit $fail