On Wednesday 08 April 2009 05:04:25 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 April 2009 04:14:05 ipif wrote:
> > I'm working on an embedded sparc system with linux-2.6.21 and
> > uclibc-0.9.30. When I try to touch a fifo, touch itself stops waiting for
> > data. This is not the expected behavior, as it should just exit.
>
> you first have to prove that this is a bug in uClibc and not touch.  where
> exactly are you getting touch from ?  did you try running gdb against that
> to see if it is the one doing the read and not uClibc ?  considering the
> functions (most likely) involved, i doubt uClibc is the culprit.
>
> > On my pc (glibc) the last part looks like this:
>
> what glibc is doing is largely irrelevant as the version of touch built
> there will use wildly different interfaces (the *at funcs in this case).

anyone who happens to also hit this, it did turn out to be an issue with 
coreutils' touch (well, the gnulib utimes module when cross-compiling) and not 
uClibc.

see this thread for info:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-04/msg00090.html
-mike

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