Hello,
(From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670478 )
cp/parent-perm-race tries to copy a fifo with the --copy-contents
option. The problem is that cp still uses O_NOFOLLOW in that case,
strace shows:
open("mode/fifo", O_RDONLY|O_NOFOLLOW)
O_NOFOLLOW is actually normally meant for security, to avoid attacks
through symlink redirection. In that case, the Hurd thus disables
translators too, to avoid any rogue translator that would achieve the
same kind attack as symlink redirection. But then --copy-contents can
not work, since the fifo thus can not work (it's a translator that
implements it). I don't think either the Hurd or coreutils will want to
change their behavior, so could the test be disabled on GNU/Hurd?
Samuel
