Re: utime module

[Derek R. Price]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Derek R. Price" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Since the utime module only switches on the result of
>> AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL, and the Autoconf 2.60 documentation labels
>> AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL as obsolescent for lack of practical porting targets,
>> would be okay to remove the utime module from GNULIB?
> 
> This one is a bit like memcmp, since it depends on C libraries,
> not on C compilers themselves.  So one possibility is to put it
> on the same watch list as memcmp, exit, etc.
> 
> I think only coreutils uses this module nowadays.  Jim, do you know of
> any practical porting targets where utime(..., NULL) still doesn't work?  The
> last time I heard of this bug in the wild was more than ten years ago, e.g.,
> <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sgi.bugs/msg/ef9d30906e94c8f1>.

I was assuming that Akim would have put a spy in the Autoconf test suite
to make sure it was okay to declare this macro obsolescent, but digging
into the Autoconf repository, I don't see any evidence of that.

I'll implement Jim's watch list for this one, memcmp, the rest of the
C89 functions you pointed out, and any others I notice that look promising.

Cheers,

Derek
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