kafs breaks west meta build tool

[Jeffrey E Altman]

On 10/19/2025 7:53 AM, markus.suvanto at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear all
>
>
> More details is here:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220685
>
>
> Reproducer using bash
>
> Openafs:
> [ -d "/afs/.west" ] && echo "Directory exists."
>
>
> kafs:
> [ -d "/afs/.west" ] && echo "Directory exists."
> Directory exists.
>
> -Markus Suvanto

Markus,

I ran the python3 util.py program you provided and I see that it outputs
"Directory exists" for "/afs/.west" and yet

jaltman at host:~/$ ls -l /afs/.west
ls: cannot open directory '/afs/.west': No such file or directory

This is when using the 6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64 kernel.

I haven't looked into how the python3 check is implemented.

Jeffrey