On Nov 24 2025, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 11/22/25 5:08 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> On Nov 21 2025, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >>> Yes, this defeats the bash check. I tend to agree with kre that this is >>> a Linux kernel bug, but here we are. >> I don't think so. This can happen with any file (even "normal" regular >> ones) if another process is modifying it just between the stat and the >> read calls. > > The problem is whether or not you think this is something that can happen > to a shell script, and whether the file `shrinking' indicates something > to be concerned about.
The use of the unspecified value of errno is certainly a bug in bash. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."
