Re: [PATCH] gnulib's test for the O_NOATIME open flag is broken

[Paul Eggert]

Nix <address@hidden> writes:

> I suspect this wasn't noticed because a lot of people mount their
> filesystems with the noatime option,

Actually, in my case it wasn't noticed because my system doesn't
support O_NOATIME.  I guess a lot of developers are in my boat,
as it's a relatively new feature.

> 2006-11-25  Nix  <address@hidden>
>
>       * m4/fcntl_h.m4 (gl_FCNTL_H): Test the atime, not the mtime.
>       Don't close an fd more than once. Identical atimes indicate
>       success, not failure.

Thanks for the bug report and the fix.  I installed the fix into
gnulib.