From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk" Subject: Re: utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v4] (patch) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:29:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48454F1D.6060507@gmail.com> <4845A606.6070005@gmail.com> <20080603132231.1430f812.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, miklos@szeredi.hu, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jamie@shareable.org, drepper@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: "Andrew Morton" Return-path: Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.157]:55434 "EHLO po-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752422AbYFCU3R (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:29:17 -0400 Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id c31so5378239poi.1 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:29:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080603132231.1430f812.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:13:58 +0200 > Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> This patch fixes all of the utimensat() bugs outlined in my >> previous mail. >> >> I could have split the patch out into a few pieces, but given >> that it is not long, and all against a single file, I've made >> one patch. Let me know if you would like separate patches for >> the pieces below. > > Well I think it would have been better, really. > > Right now someone (apparently me) needs to take the text from > "utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v4] (overview)" and weave it > together with the text from "utimensat() non-conformances and fixes > [v4] (patch)" to produce a vaguely coherent changelog. > > It all would be much saner and cleaner if each of these changes was in > a self-contained diff which had its own standalone changelog, no? Okay -- let me take a shot at it. I'll try to get back to you in an hour or so. -- 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