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           Summary: coreutils-6.12 - touch uses unknown system call
                    utimensat
           Product: Codex
           Version: test grimoire
          Platform: All
               URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-
                    06/msg00022.html
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: utils
        AssignedTo: sm-grimoire-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: ryuji AT sourcemage.org


touch a
touch: setting times of `a': Function not implemented

open("a", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3
dup2(3, 0)                              = 0
close(3)                                = 0
utimensat(0, NULL, NULL, 0)             = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented)
close(0)                                = 0
write(2, "touch: ", 7touch: )                  = 7
write(2, "setting times of `a\'", 20setting times of `a')   = 20
write(2, ": Function not implemented", 26: Function not implemented) = 26
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
close(1)                                = 0
close(2)                                = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?

touch from coreutils-6.12 tries to use utimensat, but does not cope under the
following circumstances:

build coreutils-6.12 with glibc-2.7 (our current glibc; includes 2.6.23 kernel
headers) and use a linux kernel that doesnt support the utimensat call, ex.
2.6.18 (like dkowis' Xen box for those who have access)... this will make the
utimensat() fail with ENOSYS.

There is a patch on upstream's mailing list, located at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-06/msg00034.html

Said patch does not apply cleanly, after looking around, I found:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224483

The patch they provide is the same, only modified to apply cleanly against a
6.12 release of coreutils.

The patch itself: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=155835

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