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Re: futimens broken on GNU Hurd (no support for UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT)
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Colin Watson |
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Re: futimens broken on GNU Hurd (no support for UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT) |
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Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:49:44 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 06:25:18AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> I'd rather we make this conditional on a feature probe (such as #ifdef
> UTIME_NOW_WORKS, suitably defined via a configure-time test) than a
> platform probe, so that when the platform is eventually fixed, we quit
> using the fallback.
OK. The existing gl_cv_func_futimens_works test already spots the
problem, but it's in m4/futimens.m4, which is one module layer up from
lib/utimens.c. Duplicating that code would seem suboptimal. What would
you advise here?
Thanks,
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Colin Watson address@hidden