coreutils problem with xfstest generic/452

From: Steve French

Date: Thu Jun 04 2026 - 17:34:23 EST


coreutils behavior seems to have changed breaking xfstest generic/452
which copies the symlink to "ls" to a different directory to run in
the test. It works with Fedora and some older Ubuntu but with
current Ubuntu (26.04) it looks like coreutils has changed breaking
the test. Any ideas?

generic/452 0s ... - output mismatch (see
/home/smfrench/xfstests-dev/results//sambamfs/generic/452.out.bad)
--- tests/generic/452.out 2025-08-22 09:54:32.316786174 -0500
+++ /home/smfrench/xfstests-dev/results//sambamfs/generic/452.out.bad
2026-06-04 16:29:58.768874029 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
QA output created by 452
-SCRATCH_MNT/ls_on_scratch
-SCRATCH_MNT/ls_on_scratch
+coreutils: unknown program 'ls_on_scratch'
+coreutils: unknown program 'ls_on_scratch'

# coreutils --version
coreutils 0.8.0 (multi-call binary)
# ls --version
ls (uutils coreutils) 0.8.0



--
Thanks,

Steve