Re: touch gets stuck for named pipes

[Jim Meyering]

ipif wrote:
> I'm using coreutils-7.2 on an embedded sparc V8 with linux-2.6.21 and
> uclibc-0.9.30.
> The problem is, that in utime.c(73) it is tried to read a char from the file
> and to write it back. As the fifo is empty touch gets stuck waiting for
> input.
> Because I'm crosscompiling HAVE_WORKING_UTIMES is always unset. Exporting
> gl_cv_func_working_utimes solved this for me,

Thanks for the report.
It sounds like you're saying that when cross-compiling
you had to set gl_cv_func_working_utimes to avoid this problem.
That is normal.  There are several configure-time tests that
must be skipped (and for which we choose a pessimistic default)
when cross-compiling.  Hence, you, the person who knows about
the target, must identify those variables and specify more accurate
settings for your target system.

> but no the issue at all.

I'm not sure I understand this final phrase.