Bug 146979

Summary: RHEL4: rcp gives incorrect error report when file system writes fai
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Karel Zak <kzak>
Component: rshAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Karel Zak 2005-02-03 10:27:20 UTC 
*** This bug has been split off bug 67361 ***

------- Original comment by Need Real Name on 2002.06.23 11:32 -------

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Description of problem:
rcp in 7.x, derived from netkit-rsh-0.17, doesn't preserve errno when it 
encounters a filesystem write error (e.g. filesystem out of space).  When it 
ultimately prints out an error message (in the switch(wrerr) statement), errno 
is unpredictable.  The easiest way to reproduce the problem is to rcp a 
sizeable file onto a system's /boot filesystem.  Instead of "No space left on 
device", I've seen it say "Success" and "No such file or directory".

Fix is to add a wrerrno variable, and every time you have wrerr = YES, add a 
statement wrerrno = YES.  This fix is in more recent versions of the freebsd 
rcp source.
Comment 1 Jay Turner 2005-04-16 19:52:37 UTC 
Fix confirmed with 0.17-25.3.  Moving to PROD_READY.
Comment 2 Tim Powers 2005-06-08 15:01:32 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-165.html