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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:35:32 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use utime rather than utimes
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:22, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Kay Sievers [2010-03-10  9:34 +0100]:
>> utime(): POSIX.1-2008 marks utime() as obsolete.
>
> That's actually what the manpage says, indeed. However, it contradicts
> what's written in the standard:
>
>  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/time.h.html#tag_13_64
>
> says utimes() is obsolete and
>
>  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/utime.h.html#tag_13_81
>
> says nothing about being obsolete. However, this might not be _the_
> POSIX standard?

Sounds all pretty weird. Maybe we just go for utimensat(AT_FDCWD,
..., if that is in uclibc. Jon, care to check?

Thanks,
Kay