Comment 1 for bug 506798

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Even more, thank you for your background work -- it is really appreciated.

I have added bug watches for both Fedora bugs you gave us (kernel -- which is 'linux' for us --, and coreutils), and I am also adding an empty bug watch for upstream coreutils.

As you point out, there is no clear path here. It looks like upstream is tending to consider this more of a kernel-addressable issue (in lieu of adding the patch additional time penalty for up to 10 to everybody). I guess we will have to wait and see.