-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 10/30/2009 6:53 AM: >> I can't reproduce on current debian testing, so it is likely an old bug. > > The Linux man pages are explicit that older kernels had a bug where > UTIME_OMIT with a non-zero seconds field failed with EINVAL instead of > working, but I thought my code path already worked around this. Can you > check what errno was set to? Or even better, single-step through > utimens.c at that point to see why validate_timespec() doesn't seem to be > doing the trick.
Also, an strace run would be invaluable, to see what actual arguments were passed to the syscall. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrsVS0ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBodQCeP1HBB1G25Bn2bc6du4vgzS3r EroAmwfw7f0TXI32rOBkPBDglB2qxPoq =JmyD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----