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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:57:39 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: Andrew Cottrell <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: fileutils 4.1: Cumulative patch post-rel4 [PATCH]
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Hello.

Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> 
> > > Andrew, can you apply this next time you do a build for testing?
> > > (You will need to apply the patch I've posted to fix bugs in /dev/zero,
> > > if it hasn't been committed.)
> >
> > I have applied these patches and when the /dev/zero gets commited I will
> > do a build.
> 
> Richard,
> 
> I just did a CVS get and did a build and I now have an rm.exe that does not
> work correctly as indicated below. Is this expected because one of the
> patches that is need to get it working is missing or is it a bug?
[snip]
>     DJGPP_204 D:\dj204\gnu\sh-util2.01\lib>rm -f yesno.o
>     rm: cannot unlink `yesno.o': Operation not permitted (EPERM)
[snip]

Yep, that's due to the bug in the /dev/{zero,full} code. Temporary fix, until
I CVS commit: revert the patch to gnu/filutil4.1/src/djstart.c or comment out
the calls to __install_dev_zero and __install_dev_full in that file. Sorry
about the bug.

Bye, Rich =]

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