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Re: [PATCH] Change file_utimes RPC to use a struct timespec and update t


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change file_utimes RPC to use a struct timespec and update the servers to use UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 02:24:46 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Hello,

Thanks for working on this!

Flávio Cruz, le Sat 29 Aug 2015 03:35:56 +0100, a écrit :
> These two patches allow the glibc and the hurd servers to handle UTIME_OMIT 
> and UTIME_NOW in futimens.
> The file_utimes RPC now uses a struct timespec instead of a timeval.

Well, we can't really change RPCs on the fly like this, otherwise you
can't upgrade running translators first or libc first.  You need to
introduce a new RPC with the new interface, and in libc cope with
translators which don't know the new RPC yet by reverting to the old
RPC.

Samuel



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