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Re: utime


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: utime
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:00:10 +0100
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Given that coreutils stopped using it then (no problems), and that
> gnulib-tool has been warning anyone who uses it, outright removal
> should be safe, now.  Here's a patch to do that.
> I'll push tomorrow if no one objects.

Sounds good to me.

> +On some old platforms (Sequent), @code{utime (file, NULL)} fails to set the
> +file's timestamp to the current time.

I'm assuming nobody cares about Sequent any more.  If anyone does, it is
in the git history.

>  On some platforms, this function mis-handles trailing slash:
>  Solaris 9.

Is Solaris 9 considered too old as well?  Or is this problem
unimportant?

/Simon




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