[lfs] branch trunk updated: coreutils: fix a bug causing cp to hang forever

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commit b02d8e562f27f58404f305c9882196c0a90e4a3d
Author: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 26 13:56:28 2026 +0800

    coreutils: fix a bug causing cp to hang forever
    
    During my build the e2fsprogs test suite hangs because of this bug.
    
    Link: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/159
---
 chapter08/coreutils.xml | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/chapter08/coreutils.xml b/chapter08/coreutils.xml
index 36d428981..b2209f975 100644
--- a/chapter08/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/coreutils.xml
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@
       those bugs are reproducible without this patch.</para>
     </note>
 
+    <!-- https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/bd528f923482 -->
+    <para>Fix a bug causing the <command>cp</command> command to hang
+    forever when copying sparse files on
+    <systemitem class='filesystem'>ext4</systemitem> file systems:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '/off_t ext_end =/s/ipos/src_pos/' -i src/copy-file-data.c</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">autoreconf -fv

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