linux-kernel - Re: [parch 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME

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Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0806040501i43f4faeagd44599efea0463c6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:01:48 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	"Miklos Szeredi" <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@....de, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jamie@...reable.org,
	drepper@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [parch 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>> The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says that if a times[n].tv_nsec
>> field is UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW, then the value in the corresponding
>> tv_sec field is ignored.  However the current Linux implementation
>> requires the tv_sec value to be zero (or the EINVAL error results).
>> This requirement should be removed.
>>
>> CC: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
>> CC: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
>> CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
>
> Would it be possible to quote the relevant parts of the draft?

Will do, for the next revision of this patch series.

> Otherwise
>
> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
>



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