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From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: "Miklos Szeredi" <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	hch@lst.de, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jamie@shareable.org,
	drepper@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [parch 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:01:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0806040501i43f4faeagd44599efea0463c6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1K3kbK-0007c4-PF@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>> The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says that if a times[n].tv_nsec
>> field is UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW, then the value in the corresponding
>> tv_sec field is ignored.  However the current Linux implementation
>> requires the tv_sec value to be zero (or the EINVAL error results).
>> This requirement should be removed.
>>
>> CC: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
>> CC: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
>> CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
>
> Would it be possible to quote the relevant parts of the draft?

Will do, for the next revision of this patch series.

> Otherwise
>
> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
>



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      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-03 22:24 [parch 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW Michael Kerrisk
2008-06-04  4:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-04 12:01   ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]

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