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

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM Hilmar Preusse <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>

You're welcome. No urgent upload is needed here since we pushed a locally
built interim package.

There surely are people who are affected in many places, of course. They
would probably appreciate it if an upload appears soon.

I found out that another setup causing a failure is when people have a
dual-boot laptop with a mounted w$ partition. The underlying device that
the fuse thing uses is also of the "listable-but-not-statable" kind.

laptop ~ $ ls -aU --color=no / | grep bit
.bitlocker-dev
bitlocker
laptop ~ $ stat /.bitlocker-dev
stat: cannot statx '/.bitlocker-dev': Permission denied
laptop ~ $ grep bitlocker /etc/fstab
/dev/nvme0n1p3 /.bitlocker-dev fuse.dislocker
recovery-password=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,nofail 0 0
/.bitlocker-dev/dislocker-file /bitlocker loop,ntfs-3g nofail 0 0

On that machine, compiling a TeX file simply isn't possible (same output as
above).

Thanks all for the quick feedback.