Package: fakeroot
Version: 1.12.2
Severity: important
Hello,
We're getting FTBFSs on hurd-i386 because of /usr/bin/diff getting
644 instead of 755. This is apparently due to a race in fakeroot-tcp
triggered by install -s, which does the following:
- copy the target file, which is now 600
- fork()
- in the child exec strip(target file), which calls chmod(600) after
stripping the file.
- in the parent wait for the child
- chmod(target file, 755)
sometimes chmod() doesn't have effect. If I put a sleep right before
chmod() (or even just a printf), things are ok.
Looking at the chmod implementation of fakeroot, it just sends a message
to the fakeroot-tcp daemon, which updates the permissions there. The
race is that the message to fakeroot-tcp corresponding to strip's
chmod(600) may be processed after the one from install's chmod(755),
as the fakeroot-tcp daemon processes messages just in socket order and
doesn't make the client wait for completion of chmod...
Samuel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages fakeroot depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
fakeroot recommends no packages.
fakeroot suggests no packages.
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