linux-kernel - Re: utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v4] (patch)

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Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0806031329n2ca9da38pdf3d5a2fe81d3748@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:29:14 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	mtk.manpages@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de,
	miklos@...redi.hu, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jamie@...reable.org,
	drepper@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v4] (patch)

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:13:58 +0200
> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch fixes all of the utimensat() bugs outlined in my
>> previous mail.
>>
>> I could have split the patch out into a few pieces, but given
>> that it is not long, and all against a single file, I've made
>> one patch.  Let me know if you would like separate patches for
>> the pieces below.
>
> Well I think it would have been better, really.
>
> Right now someone (apparently me) needs to take the text from
> "utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v4] (overview)" and weave it
> together with the text from "utimensat() non-conformances and fixes
> [v4] (patch)" to produce a vaguely coherent changelog.
>
> It all would be much saner and cleaner if each of these changes was in
> a self-contained diff which had its own standalone changelog, no?

Okay -- let me take a shot at it.  I'll try to get back to you in an hour or so.

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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