Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Thu Apr 26 2007 - 20:56:29 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm a bit leery of abusing the timespec value like this, though. A
> flags field seem like it would be cleaner.

It's ugly. Then you have the parameter, which might have nice valid
values, and they get ignored. I thought about it when this was
discussed in the working group and thought it's a toss up.


> Something else... if we're dickering with these interfaces, shouldn't we
> allow setting atime as well?

Why? To allow somebody to hide her/his tracks?

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