linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] v4: merged utimensat implementation

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:32:47 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	adobriyan@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] v4: merged utimensat implementation

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:23:58AM -0400, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I took Alexey's lutimes patches and merged it with the utimensat patch.
> Fortunately Alexey already did most of the work, the conversion to
> timespec.  I just changed the name of the syscall, made the flag part
> of the syscall parameters, and did away with the old do_utimes definition
> (the new do_utimes takes a timespec and a flag now).  All five patches
> patches are rolled into one.

erm, utime(2) cleanup is technically independent from all this nanosecond
business, but ok.

> --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
> @@ -955,15 +955,25 @@ osf_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval32 __user *in, struct itimerval32 __use
>  asmlinkage int
>  osf_utimes(char __user *filename, struct timeval32 __user *tvs)
>  {
> -	struct timeval ktvs[2];
> +	struct timespec tv[2];

It should be tiny little bit nicer to call them "ts[2]" because they're
timeSpecs.

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