James Youngman wrote: > > On AIX 5.1, with gnulib as of today (29 March) the test-stat-time test > > fails. > > More precisely, on a 'jfs2' file system, the test fails in the third ASSERT > > of test_mtime. I get these time stamps: > > Does the following patch fix the problem? > > 2007-03-30 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * tests/test-stat-time.c (prepare_test): use chmod() rather than > rename() to change the ctime of a file (because ctime is > unaffected by rename on jfs2 on AIX 5.1). > (main): Start by doing cleanup, in case a previous run failed > leaving test files behind.
I don't have access to the AIX 5.1 machine at this moment, but according to what I observed earlier I believe it should fix the test failure. On AIX 4, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, OSF/1, it doesn't cause a new test failure. So I applied the patch. Thanks. Bruno
