From 94c70b9ba7e9c1036284e779e2fef5be89021533 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 21:16:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [patch for 2.6.26 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW 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. See the last sentence of this para, from the spec: If the tv_nsec field of a timespec structure has the special value UTIME_NOW, the file's relevant timestamp shall be set to the greatest value supported by the file system that is not greater than the current time. If the tv_nsec field has the special value UTIME_OMIT, the file's relevant timestamp shall not be changed. In either case, the tv_sec field shall be ignored. However the current Linux implementation requires the tv_sec value to be zero (or the EINVAL error results). This requirement should be removed. Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Reading git-format-patch failed