Re: 4 test failures on freebsd8-rc2

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>> If I'd known this was coming so quickly, I would have delayed
>> making the coreutils snapshot.
>>
>> Let me know when you're done: maybe I'll make one more
>> before the release.
>
> At least a couple more to go.  I've confirmed that on FreeBSD:
>
> touch f
> ln -s f l
> link l/ g
> unlink l/
>
> creates g as a hard link to f, then removes f; both the link and the unlink
> should have failed, since l/ is not a symlink-to-directory.  Hmm, that means
> coreutils' testsuite could use more trailing slash tests, so I'll add that to
> my todo list.  Here's what I'm currently testing on the gnulib side...
>
> I also suspect problems in chmod and chown, but have not had time to confirm
> that yet.
>
>>From 120a86a14b534bf24808974967786611f16dc8c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:44:08 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] unlink, remove: detect FreeBSD bug
...
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] link: detect FreeBSD bug

Both look fine, though I haven't tested at all yet.
Thanks for the quick work.