Re: Problems with coreutils-6.12.70-4f470

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Fales <address@hidden> wrote:
> I decided to have a look at the latest coreutils-6.12.70-4f470, and I'm
> seeing a new problem on Solaris 8.  (Both sparc and x86)
>
> It seems that on Solaris, you can't simply copy the ACLs using GETACL/SETACL
> if the source file is in /tmp.  This causes qcopy_acl() to fail with an
> error, and can be demonstrated with the following program.  Copying the
> ACLs from /foo works, but copying from /tmp/foo fails with EINVAL:

Thanks for investigating/reporting that.
Unfortunately, copy-acl.c has several candidate acl/facl calls,
and I don't have access to a Solaris 8 system on which to debug it.
Do you know which one is affected in your case?
There are already some attempts to handle EINVAL.

> ##################################################################
> #include <sys/acl.h>
> #include <sys/fcntl.h>
>
> main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> int count, fd, i, res;
> aclent_t *entries;
>
>
>       char *file[] = { "foo", "/tmp/foo" };
>
>       open("bar",O_WRONLY|O_CREAT,0644);
>
>       for ( i = 0 ; i < 2 ; i++ ) {
>
>               open(file[i],O_WRONLY|O_CREAT,0644);
>
>               count =  acl (file[i], GETACLCNT, 0, NULL);
>
>               entries = (aclent_t *) malloc (count * sizeof (aclent_t));
>
>               res = acl (file[i], GETACL, count, entries);
>
>               res = acl ("bar", SETACL, count, entries);
>               if ( res < 0 ) {
>                       perror(file[i]);
>               }
>       }
> }
> ##################################################################