On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:41:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:21:42 +0300
> Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Rewrite via do_utimes() like compat_sys_utime().
>
> I'm somewhat surprised that this wasn't done earlier.
Because, the following patch didn't hit -mm. :)
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:32:24 +0400
From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Shrink sys_utime()
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All checks in sys_utime() and do_utimes() are duplicated as well as a
comment. sys_utime() will now use do_utimes() after getting times from
userspace and projecting them to struct timeval [2].
Nevermind.
> I wonder if there's some subtle reason why this won't work.
I don't know. Compat syscall -- I'm not touching it. Normal syscall --
time_t is long on all archs, suseconds_t is sometimes int, but we're
putting zero there.
> How well tested is this?
It passed utime tests in December's LTP.
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