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Re: Bug#202243: glibc utimes glitch with coreutils 'touch'
- From: GOTO Masanori <gotom at debian dot or dot jp>
- To: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>, 202243 at bugs dot debian dot org
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>, bug-gnulib at gnu dot org,bug-coreutils at gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:30:14 +0900
- Subject: Re: Bug#202243: glibc utimes glitch with coreutils 'touch'
- References: <85isp6v9tj.fsf@pi.meyering.net><873cgaqa8v.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu><858yq1udq3.fsf@pi.meyering.net>
At Sun, 10 Aug 2003 10:19:16 +0200,
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
> > I'll submit an alternate patch to coreutils so that it works around
> > this glibc glitch. The simplest workaround is to not invoke utimes
> > when building with glibc; perhaps I can improve on that, but I don't
> > know.
>
> We don't have to condemn the coreutils always
> to use the inferior utime interface on glibc systems.
> Instead, I'm adding a configure-time test of utimes, so that
> if it works, coreutils will use it.
>
> Here's the C program it'll compile and run.
> So far it compiles and exits successfully on all systems listed
> except for the one with Debian libc6 version 2.3.2-1.
So I patched Jakub's modification for 2.3.2-3, ok?
Regards,
-- gotom