-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > 1. The draft POSIX.1-200x specification 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. OK, for now. I think the implemented behavior is better, though. > However, the current implementation does not generate > EPERM if one tv_nsec field is UTIME_NOW while the other is UTIME_OMIT -- it > should give this error for that case. This is probably a necessary change. Non-synchronized changes might be a security problem. > However, in > the same circumstances, when utimensat() is given a 'times' array in which > both tv_nsec fields are UTIME_NOW, which provides equivalent functionality > to specifying 'times' as NULL, the call succeeds. I think that it should fail > with the error EACCES in this case. I guess so. > (times == NULL && times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW && times[1].tv_nsec == > UTIME_NOW) > > case should be treated like the traditional utimes() case where 'times' > is NULL. That is, the call should succeed for a file marked append-only > and should give the error EACCES if the file is marked as immutable. Is this something I changed? I doubt I added this. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgMMjsACgkQ2ijCOnn/RHT9dwCgxhprkeAg86sW11ilKtHaVYtO Ae0An18utIREI/MnfwPO5HixxZbJz7zD =hrvK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
