Re: utimensat fails to update ctime

Eric Blake
2009-12-22T12:41:43Z

According to Dave Chinner on 12/22/2009 5:34 AM:
> Yeah, it looks like the change to utimesat() back in 2.6.26 for
> posix conformance made ATTR_CTIME appear outside inode truncation
> and XFS wasn't updated for this change in behaviour at the VFS level.
> Looks simple to fix, but I'm worried about introducing other
> unintended ctime modifications - is there a test suite that checks
> posix compliant atime/mtime/ctime behaviour around anywhere?

Yes - the gnulib unit test, consisting of:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/nap.h
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/test-utimens-common.h
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/test-utimens.h
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/test-lutimens.h
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/test-futimens.h
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/test-futimens.c
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/tests/test-utimensat.c

Taken together, these files produce the executables test-futimens and
test-utimensat which can demonstrate compliance with POSIX. They are also
bundled as part of GNU coreutils (the version bundled with coreutils 8.2
didn't test for ctime compliance, and coreutils 8.3 hasn't been released
yet) if you use 'make -C gnulib-tests check'.

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