Re: [PATCH] utimensat: remove FIXME for old Linux kernels

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Should this change be accompanied with a documentation change
> > in doc/posix-functions/utimensat.texi ?
> 
> It's not strictly needed, as Gnulib still works around bugs in older 
> systems, it's just that 'configure' now defaults to assuming the older 
> bugs don't exist instead of assuming that they do exist.

Ah I see now. The previous code assumed that if 'utimensat' works correctly,
as demonstrated by the test, there could still be a newer kernel that
introduces new bugs, and it tried to be cautiously compatible with that
newer broken code. All the new change does was to remove this forward-caution,
right?

If that is it, I agree, there's nothing to change in the doc.

Bruno