Re: touch and utimens troubles on new/old software combinations

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 02 June 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> > also after reading it, i dont think gnu/stubs.h would help in this
> > particular case.  gnulib would need a runtime test to detect that
> > utimensat() is actually not available.
>
> That should be pretty easy, just fall through to the fallback code when
> errno == ENOSYS.

sorry, when i said "runtime test", what i was actually referring to was 
configure doing an AC_TRY_RUN() as that would catch most cases.  if people 
are OK with making the ENOSYS test completely runtime, that would make 
downstream users happier ... not sure about upstream though :).
-mike

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