Re: coreutils-8.2 misc/ls-time test failure

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Eric Blake on 12/15/2009 7:48 PM:
>> According to John Stanley on 12/15/2009 4:42 PM:
>>> Basically, what's happening is that 'touch -a ..' updated ctime in
>>> coreutils-7.6,
>>> but does not update ctime in coreutils-8.2 (hence misc/ls-time fails).
>>
>> Ouch.  That's a bug in the kernel; I can reproduce it:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux fencepost 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 04:27:12 UTC 2009
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> $ touch q
>> $ stat -c '%x %z' q
>> 2009-12-15 21:46:33.186677568 -0500 2009-12-15 21:46:33.186677568 -0500
>> $ touch -a q
>> $ stat -c '%x %z' q
>> 2009-12-15 21:47:15.157175384 -0500 2009-12-15 21:46:33.186677568 -0500
>> $

This and the tail-f-w/inotify-vs-NFS problem make a good case for
a coreutils-8.3 bug-fix release.