Re: gnulib support for st_birthtime (second revision of patch)

[Bruno Haible]

James Youngman wrote:
> > On AIX 5.1, with gnulib as of today (29 March) the test-stat-time test 
> > fails.
> > More precisely, on a 'jfs2' file system, the test fails in the third ASSERT
> > of test_mtime. I get these time stamps:
>
> Does the following patch fix the problem?
> 
> 2007-03-30  James Youngman  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * tests/test-stat-time.c (prepare_test): use chmod() rather than
>       rename() to change the ctime of a file (because ctime is
>       unaffected by rename on jfs2 on AIX 5.1).
>       (main): Start by doing cleanup, in case a previous run failed
>       leaving test files behind.

I don't have access to the AIX 5.1 machine at this moment, but according to
what I observed earlier I believe it should fix the test failure.

On AIX 4, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, OSF/1, it doesn't cause a new test failure.
So I applied the patch. Thanks.

Bruno