Re: pending patches?

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Eric Blake on 11/13/2009 11:35 AM:
>>> Are you approaching a good cut-off point?
>>
>> I've almost got chown working; expect patches later today.
>
> Here's my candidate under testing.  It passed FreeBSD 7.2, but I still
> need to check it on Solaris 9.
...
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chown: detect Solaris and FreeBSD bug
>
> Solaris 9 and FreeBSD 7.2 chown("link-to-file/",uid,gid)
> mistakenly changes ownership of "file".
>
> * lib/chown.c (rpl_chown): Work around bug.
> * m4/chown.m4 (gl_FUNC_CHOWN): Check for trailing slash bugs.
> (gl_PREREQ_CHOWN): Delete.
> * m4/unistd_h.m4 (gl_UNISTD_H_DEFAULTS): Add witness.
> * modules/unistd (Makefile.am): Populate it.
> * lib/unistd.in.h (chown): Update declaration.
> * lib/lchown.c (chown): Update client.
> * modules/lchown (Depends-on): Add lstat.
> * doc/posix-functions/chown.texi (chown): Document the bug.
> * doc/posix-functions/getgroups.texi (getgroups): Document
> getgroups pitfall.
> * modules/chown-tests: New file.
> * tests/test-chown.h (test_chown): Likewise.
> * tests/test-chown.c (main): Likewise.

Looks nice.  Solaris 9 and FreeBSD users should be grateful.
I'll test after you push.

Eventually, it'd be good to factor out your nap function definition,
maybe into a module.  There is already one copy in test-stat-time.c,
and this patch adds two more.  I presume they're all identical.