Re: touch and utimens troubles on new/old software combinations

[Eric Blake]

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According to Andreas Schwab on 6/2/2008 3:57 PM:
| Daniel Jacobowitz <address@hidden> writes:
|
|> Mike, I thought the *at wrappers fell back to emulation if the
|> syscalls were missing.  Is that impossible for utimensat?
|
| Emulating utimensat is rather difficult, due to the UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT
| feature.

Currently, gnulib only uses utimensat within the gnulib interface utimens,
which is not documented as supporting UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT.  Therefore, I
think that in this case, a gnulib fallback is easier to implement than
waiting for a glibc fallback.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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