Samuel Thibault, le Sun 30 Aug 2015 02:24:46 +0200, a écrit :
> Flávio Cruz, le Sat 29 Aug 2015 03:35:56 +0100, a écrit :
> > These two patches allow the glibc and the hurd servers to handle UTIME_OMIT 
> > and UTIME_NOW in futimens.
> > The file_utimes RPC now uses a struct timespec instead of a timeval.
> 
> Well, we can't really change RPCs on the fly like this, otherwise you
> can't upgrade running translators first or libc first.  You need to
> introduce a new RPC with the new interface, and in libc cope with
> translators which don't know the new RPC yet by reverting to the old
> RPC.

(And translators should keep serving both RPCs, for applications running
with old libc).

Samuel

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