Re: touch gets stuck for named pipes

[Paolo Bonzini]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> I'll make it say "guessing yes" and still put "yes" in the variable.
> 
> Thanks. Here is what the adaptation in gnulib could look like. But frankly,
> I'll prefer to remove the module altogether: The bug it cures occurred only
> on Sequents; the last time I heard about this kind of machine was in 1996.
> 
> So, any objections to removing this module?

Not from me.  My patch was orthogonal to this issue, I'd say.

You could leave in the module and make it like

AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL
if test "x$ac_cv_func_utime_null" != xyes; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([Not supported on this platform.])
fi

or just remove it altogether.

Paolo