linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]

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Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0805301243h7d862963o8320a2c1f48942ce@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 21:43:59 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	"Miklos Szeredi" <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	drepper@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-man@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]

Miklos,

You omitted to answer my question, the last sentence below:

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Michael Kerrisk
<mtk.manpages@...glemail.com> wrote:
> Miklos,
>
> I already fixed most of the isues with utimensat() in my previous
> version of the patch several days back, and that patch (probably
> still) applies against current mainline.
[...]
> This is a bug.  It is one of *several* bugs in the original
> implementation of the utimensat()/futimens() interface.  All of them
> should be fixed.  I have by now provided fixes for most of them.  (Not
> point 2 above, but with a little help that should be quickly fixed as
> well.)  At this point, I think you need to explain why you think those
> fixes shouldn't be applied.

Michael

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