Re: [parch 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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 <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>



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