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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2021-01-06 02:08:41 +0100
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2021-01-06 04:59:20 +0100
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utimensat: Work around trailing slash bug in utimensat() on AIX 7.2.
* m4/utimensat.m4 (gl_FUNC_UTIMENSAT): Require AC_CANONICAL_HOST. Add a test for trailing slash handling. Improve cross-compilation guesses. Conditionally define HAVE_NEARLY_WORKING_UTIMENSAT. * lib/utimensat.c (rpl_utimensat): Add alternative implementation when HAVE_NEARLY_WORKING_UTIMENSAT is defined. * lib/utimens.c: Use the overridden utimensat when HAVE_NEARLY_WORKING_UTIMENSAT is defined. * doc/posix-functions/utimensat.texi: Mention the AIX bug.
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@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Linux kernel 2.6.32, Mac OS X 10.13, NetBSD 9.0, Solaris 11.1.
Out-of-range values of @code{tv_nsec} do not lead to a failure on some
platforms:
Linux kernel 2.6.22.19 on hppa.
+@item
+On some platforms, this function mis-handles a trailing slash:
+AIX 7.2.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: