Bug#1135783: libkpathsea6: kpathsea's custom getcwd stats() all siblings of all parents

Hilmar Preusse <[email protected]> Wed, 6 May 2026 20:40:38 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex
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On 05.05.26 Emmanuel Thome ([email protected]) wrote:

Hello Emmanuel,

> As of libkpathsea6:amd64 2026.20260303.78225+ds-3, most tex binaries do
> strange stat() lookups of all siblings of the parent directories of the
> input file.
> 

Many thanks for analysis + patch. The patch looks reasonable, hence
I've applied it to the Debian source package. I guess you have solved
the issue locally hence you don't need an urgent upload just for
this, right?

Hilmar
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