Ash glob symlink regression when using libc glob

Lauri Kasanen cand at gmx.com
Tue Oct 31 12:48:03 UTC 2017


On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:34:48 +0100
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:

> > It fails with glibc 2.24 and 2.7, x86 and x86_64, so probably everything
> > between. Are you on a more recent glibc?
> 
> $ /lib64/libc.so.6
> GNU C Library (GNU libc) development release version 2.26.9000.

This looks relevant:
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=5554304f0dddf75dc27cc6250fc53355161fd16a

So it was fixed after 2.26 and no released glibc contains the fix. How
about either editing the description to say glibc >= 2.27 only, or even
checking that compile-time?

- Lauri


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