From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: utimes/futimes/lutimes syscalls
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:37:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F0F9E9A.9050502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F0F9B0C.10604@redhat.com>
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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> With the introduction of the nanosecond fields in struct stat the
> utime() syscall is kind of obsolete. It's not possible anymore to
> restore the exact access/modification time of a file.
Replying to myself: utimes() is already available, on some
architectures. The question is why not for archs != alpha, ia64, PA, SPARC?
And of course the question of futimes/lutimes remains.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-12 5:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-12 5:22 utimes/futimes/lutimes syscalls Ulrich Drepper
2003-07-12 5:37 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2003-07-12 5:57 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-12 6:38 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-07-12 5:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-14 7:45 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-07-14 12:16 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-15 18:31 ` Nikita Danilov
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