From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk" 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 Message-ID: References: <4845C4B4.8040706@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 To: "Miklos Szeredi" Return-path: Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.152]:55598 "EHLO po-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754508AbYFDMBt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:01:49 -0400 Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id c31so7091poi.1 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:01:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Miklos Szeredi 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 >> CC: Al Viro >> CC: Ulrich Drepper >> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk > > 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 > -- 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