Hi Stefano, Thanks for the speedy reply.
Stefano Lattarini wrote: ... > The patch is fine IMHO, I'll apply it in your name ASAP (adding a > reference to this bug report). Thanks. Thanks. ... >> FAIL: self-check-cleanup.test (exit: 1) >> ======================================= >> >> ... [CUT] ... >> >> + ls -l >> total 84 >> -rw-------. 1 meyering meyering 82 Apr 16 11:42 configure.in >> > Why this trailing dot in the permission string? That changed in coreutils two years ago, from NEWS: * Noteworthy changes in release 7.1 (2009-02-21) [stable] ... ls -l now marks SELinux-only files with the less obtrusive '.', rather than '+'. A file with any other combination of MAC and ACL is still marked with a '+'. >> -rw-------. 1 meyering meyering 18583 Apr 16 11:42 defs >> -rw-------. 1 meyering meyering 5972 Apr 16 11:42 defs-static >> -rwx------. 1 meyering meyering 20330 Apr 16 11:42 depcomp >> d---------. 2 meyering meyering 4096 Apr 16 11:42 dir >> ----------. 1 meyering meyering 0 Apr 16 11:42 file >> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 meyering meyering 4 Apr 16 11:42 foo -> defs >> -rwx------. 1 meyering meyering 13998 Apr 16 11:42 install-sh >> -rwx------. 1 meyering meyering 11419 Apr 16 11:42 missing >> + grep '^---------- .*file' >> > OK, spurious failure caused by the trailing dot in the permission > string. I'll fix it by relaxing the regexp.