Re: futimens broken on GNU Hurd (no support for UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT)

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 06:25:18AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> I'd rather we make this conditional on a feature probe (such as #ifdef
> UTIME_NOW_WORKS, suitably defined via a configure-time test) than a
> platform probe, so that when the platform is eventually fixed, we quit
> using the fallback.

OK.  The existing gl_cv_func_futimens_works test already spots the
problem, but it's in m4/futimens.m4, which is one module layer up from
lib/utimens.c.  Duplicating that code would seem suboptimal.  What would
you advise here?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden