Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760706AbYFDMCB (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:02:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754208AbYFDMBv (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:01:51 -0400 Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.153]:55647 "EHLO po-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754160AbYFDMBt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:01:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=oaIZFiWQtQCEQPhAnT/aQv8Fa/fUOyYj4FIXIxICjEY6lMvOs0EO/hxOH/YJ7MOaXD siPOyojEThGkoP8g5jCMXtk1gjjmBOAjBHPkX88vn9P0qvAMGeWBeYdckXZZEHSaF09v H0cg948WVppb0aDaaVq9tQoK7j1MXowS0AcWQ= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:01:48 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: "Miklos Szeredi" Subject: Re: [parch 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jamie@shareable.org, drepper@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4845C4B4.8040706@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1175 Lines: 32 On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Miklos Szeredi 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 >> CC: Al Viro >> CC: Ulrich Drepper >> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk > > 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 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/