Re: [parch 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMITor UTIME_NOW

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 00:28:35 EST


> The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says that if a times[n].tv_nsec
> field is UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW, then the value in the corresponding
> tv_sec field is ignored. However the current Linux implementation
> requires the tv_sec value to be zero (or the EINVAL error results).
> This requirement should be removed.
>
> CC: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>

Would it be possible to quote the relevant parts of the draft?
Otherwise

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
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