Fixing "touch" to reset ancient/weired/far-future timestamps... / was: Re: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to64bit[PSARC/2008/351SelfReview]

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:

> I agree whole heartedly.  I think the "fix" presented for touch, which 
> is to deliver 64-bit only, is incomplete, since it doesn't help 32-bit 
> kernels which are still interesting.

I am not sure if this applies to all problems but many  of the file time stamp 
problems are not visible on top of 32 bit kernels as the kernel already did
truncate the range of the time stamp before the stat(2) call is applied.

Jörg

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