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Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 [message #9906 is a reply to message #9883]

Mon, 29 January 2007 10:59

adobriyan
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Registered: November 2006

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On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:45:20PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > OK, but I don't recall having seeing a demand for lutimes(). Opinions
> > are sought?
>
> It's an interface which has been available on other platforms forever
> (lutimes, not lutimesat). If it can be implemented correctly on the
> interesting file systems I'd say "go ahead", it can only be useful and
> have more benefits than the probably small cost of implementing it.
>
> If on the other hand important filesystems cannot support lutimes then
> I'd wait with introducing the syscall at least until the support is
> added.

What do you mean by "filesystems cannot support lutimes"? Filesystems
that don't have on-disk timestamps for symlinks?

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		[PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 By: adobriyan on Fri, 26 January 2007 11:17
		Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 By: Andrew Morton on Fri, 26 January 2007 20:39
		Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 By: Ulrich Drepper on Fri, 26 January 2007 20:45
		Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 By: adobriyan on Mon, 29 January 2007 10:59
		Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 By: Ulrich Drepper on Mon, 29 January 2007 15:07
		Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 By: adobriyan on Mon, 29 January 2007 15:55
		Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 By: hpa on Sun, 28 January 2007 07:59
		[PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 By: adobriyan on Mon, 29 January 2007 09:52

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