Eric Blake wrote: > According to Eric Blake on 12/15/2009 7:48 PM: >> According to John Stanley on 12/15/2009 4:42 PM: >>> Basically, what's happening is that 'touch -a ..' updated ctime in >>> coreutils-7.6, >>> but does not update ctime in coreutils-8.2 (hence misc/ls-time fails). >> >> Ouch. That's a bug in the kernel; I can reproduce it: >> >> $ uname -a >> Linux fencepost 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 04:27:12 UTC 2009 >> x86_64 GNU/Linux >> $ touch q >> $ stat -c '%x %z' q >> 2009-12-15 21:46:33.186677568 -0500 2009-12-15 21:46:33.186677568 -0500 >> $ touch -a q >> $ stat -c '%x %z' q >> 2009-12-15 21:47:15.157175384 -0500 2009-12-15 21:46:33.186677568 -0500 >> $
This and the tail-f-w/inotify-vs-NFS problem make a good case for a coreutils-8.3 bug-fix release.