Re: one more failure on Solaris 10

[Eric Blake]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

According to Jim Meyering on 11/18/2009 6:58 AM:
>>> which suggests this code in test-futimens.h
>>> needs to handle ENOTDIR:
>> Actually, this was a regression, caused when you disabled the futimens
>> fallback on the 8th.
> 
> Really?
> This seems to be the change you're talking about:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=26c5fd742f9136e2ddbd4

Yep.

> How could that cause a problem?

Because utimens.c no longer has a way to set fd timestamps on Solaris, but
skips all code paths that set errno to ENOSYS, leaving errno stuck at
whatever it was prior to the futimes call.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iEYEARECAAYFAksD/qcACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDTVgCdGhtG7HOtRkWQ01C6QiEB9h05
engAoJ2XNpfYlSKC4ovGC8KDnwu9GKmN
=D7Fc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----