Bug#284469: "cp -a" fails on some filesystems, causing postin st failure

[Chad Miller <Chad.Miller@veritas.com>]

Thanks guys.  (It's not XFS, btw.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Küster [mailto:frank@debian.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 07 December, 2004 04:40
> To: 284469@bugs.debian.org
> Cc: Chad Miller
> Subject: Re: Bug#284469: "cp -a" fails on some filesystems, causing
> postin st failure
> 
> 
> One other point:
> 
> I, frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
> 
> > Chad Miller <Chad.Miller@veritas.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Indeed, I am not using a Debian kernel.  I am stuck within 
> a "virtual
> >> server" on a huge physical server, over which I've added 
> Debian's userspace.
> >> So your position is that having a filesystem in which I 
> can set timestamps
> >> should be a prerequisite for installing (not "using", note) tetex?
> >
> > Honestly, maintainer scripts cannot cater for every thinkable buggy
> > filesystem or kernel.
> 
> One more point: If this is the same bug in the XFS ACL 
> implementation as
> in the previous cases that reported the problem, you have 
> more problems
> than just cp -p. It was solved somewhen around 2.4.20 and 
> 2.4.21, while
> Kernels up to 2.4.23 have a vulnerability that can be used to get root
> access - and _has_ been actually used.
> 
> You should really talk to your administrators and ask them to upgrade
> the kernel.
> 
> Regards, Frank
> -- 
> Frank Küster
> Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
> Debian Developer
>