bug#79433: kbd 2.9.0: build error (under fakeroot(1) environment)

Paul Eggert wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |On 2025-09-22 09:21, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> By the way, was this bug ever reported to OpenBSD?
 |
 |I don't know.
 |
 |I've not had good luck reporting OpenBSD bugs and gave up trying to do 
 |that decades ago. As I recall, Theo criticized me for reporting bugs 
 |without also supplying patches. A tough crowd, eh?

Well .. i am not a kernel hacker, but i see their dovutimens()
(in sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c) does

                error = VOP_SETATTR(vp, &vattr, p->p_ucred, p);
        vput(vp);

and their chown series (multiple) does

                error = VOP_SETATTR(vp, &vattr, p->p_ucred, p);

.. me and kernel .. however, in their UFS filesystem for example
ufs_chown() does

  if (ouid != uid || ogid != gid)
    ip->i_flag |= IN_CHANGE;

and this causes ufs_itimes() later to update ctime.
Looks like the condition is not right, or, at least, not according
to POSIX which says

  Upon successful completion, chown( ) shall mark for update the
  last file status change timestamp of the file, except that if
  owner is (uid_t)−1 and group is (gid_t)−1, the file status
  change timestamp need not be marked for update.

It is however kernel and macros and very complex, so...
I'll forward that one too, Bcc: was explicitly disallowed.

And yes, legendary "attitude", available for example as
a fortune(1) file for the Plan9 successor 9front:

  https://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/64f1977d15c91ceb2babab9348b052665c9a277c/lib/theo/f.html

And it contains

  We'll be waiting for your fix then.

 --End of <[email protected]>

--steffen
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