From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk" Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3] Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 21:43:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: <482D4665.4050401@gmail.com> <48401E7E.9090304@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: drepper-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org, akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Miklos Szeredi" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Miklos, You omitted to answer my question, the last sentence below: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Miklos, > > I already fixed most of the isues with utimensat() in my previous > version of the patch several days back, and that patch (probably > still) applies against current mainline. [...] > This is a bug. It is one of *several* bugs in the original > implementation of the utimensat()/futimens() interface. All of them > should be fixed. I have by now provided fixes for most of them. (Not > point 2 above, but with a little help that should be quickly fixed as > well.) At this point, I think you need to explain why you think those > fixes shouldn't be applied. Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html