On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:22:04PM +0200, Johannes Dickgreber wrote: > After I installed a new glibc-2.5 with linux-headers-2.6.21 on > my SGI Octane, tar could not change time on unpacked file. > > For each file there was "utime invalid argument". > > System Gentoo MIPS N32 > Kernel 2.6.22 with mips-git20070902 plus modified skylark patches Yep, makes perfect sense. Patch applied. Please include a Signed-off-by: line when submitting patches, see Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Thanks, Ralf