-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 12/30/2009 7:07 AM: > I have tested this on Linux, with xfs. I will provide a followup patch > for the coreutils NEWS file.
Here's what I'm considering for coreutils (modified to hide email addresses). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAks7ZakACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBCcQCbBh7UuqIBC6uzmHANBrCSs/aA y/wAoKbh/3Hlv2OLHR4CVi+SmZ/6rhUo =oGsP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>From 4b0a492e1a251d9c0f970df653df1d1b22e0fcf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:36:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] touch: work around ntfs-3g bug * gnulib: Update, for utimensat fix. * NEWS: Improve wording about touch fixes. * THANKS: Update. Reported by ctrn3e8. --- NEWS | 4 ++-- THANKS | 1 + gnulib | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dd2ad6d..12d5b6c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- make tail stop tracking additions to "b". [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] - touch -a once again guarantees that a file's change time is - adjusted, working around a bug in current Linux kernels. + touch -a and touch -m could trigger bugs in some file systems, such + as xfs or ntfs-3g, and fail to update timestamps. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1] wc now prints counts atomically so that concurrent diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 86be252..6e4927d 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ Colin Watson Collin Rogowski ... Cray-Cyber Project ... Cristian Cadar ... +ctrn3e8 ... Cyril Bouthors ... Dale Scheetz ... Dameon G. Rogers ... diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib index e0bf168..0e3e69f 160000 --- a/gnulib +++ b/gnulib @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit e0bf16819c83c3ef1d11bf373f5f90a1f09c534c +Subproject commit 0e3e69f9f9b31a7d8516bb9699471db6a43bd3c8 -- 1.6.4.2
