Package: fakeroot Version: 1.2.10 Severity: important There seems to be a race condition between faked and the fakeroot script that may lead to not updating the save-file when fakeroot is called with a single command as argument (or for the first command in a list of commands):
rm -f devnode .fakeroot.env fakeroot -s .fakeroot.env mknod devnode c 5 1 fakeroot -i .fakeroot.env ls -l devnode .fakeroot.env results in: ipc1:~/tmp/fakeroot_bugs> fakeroot -i .fakeroot.env ls -l devnode .fakeroot.env fakeroot: database file `.fakeroot.env' does not exist. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 12:01 .fakeroot.env -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 12:01 devnode The existence of .fakeroot.env in the 'ls' output despite the error message shows that the file has obviously been created only after the second fakeroot invocation. When a dummy command is added things look better: rm -f devnode .fakeroot.env fakeroot -s .fakeroot.env sh -c "rm -f devnode;mknod devnode c 5 1" fakeroot -i .fakeroot.env ls -l devnode .fakeroot.env sometimes produces the correct result, but sometimes: fakeroot: database file `.fakeroot.env' does not exist. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 Aug 1 12:06 .fakeroot.env -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 12:06 devnode repeating the 'ls' command gives: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 Aug 1 12:06 .fakeroot.env crw-r--r-- 1 root root 5, 1 Aug 1 12:06 devnode Piping commands into fakeroot seems to work reliably: rm -f devnode .fakeroot.env echo mknod devnode c 5 1 | fakeroot -s .fakeroot.env fakeroot -i .fakeroot.env ls -l devnode .fakeroot.env Result: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 Aug 1 11:56 .fakeroot.env crw-r--r-- 1 root root 5, 1 Aug 1 11:56 devnode Lothar Wassmann -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages fakeroot depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
