# Detect some bugs in glibc's implementation of utimes. # serial 2 dnl Copyright (C) 2003-2005, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. # See if we need to work around bugs in glibc's implementation of # utimes from 2003-07-12 to 2003-09-17. # First, there was a bug that would make utimes set mtime # and atime to zero (1970-01-01) unconditionally. # Then, there was code to round rather than truncate. # Then, there was an implementation (sparc64, Linux-2.4.28, glibc-2.3.3) # that didn't honor the NULL-means-set-to-current-time semantics. # Finally, there was also a version of utimes that failed on read-only # files, while utime worked fine (linux-2.2.20, glibc-2.2.5). # # From Jim Meyering, with suggestions from Paul Eggert. AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_UTIMES], [ AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether the utimes function works], [gl_cv_func_working_utimes], [ AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include int main () { static struct timeval timeval[2] = {{9, 10}, {999999, 999999}}; struct stat sbuf; char const *file = "conftest.utimes"; FILE *f; time_t now; int fd; int ok = ((f = fopen (file, "w")) && fclose (f) == 0 && utimes (file, timeval) == 0 && lstat (file, &sbuf) == 0 && sbuf.st_atime == timeval[0].tv_sec && sbuf.st_mtime == timeval[1].tv_sec); unlink (file); if (!ok) exit (1); ok = ((f = fopen (file, "w")) && fclose (f) == 0 && time (&now) != (time_t)-1 && utimes (file, NULL) == 0 && lstat (file, &sbuf) == 0 && now - sbuf.st_atime <= 2 && now - sbuf.st_mtime <= 2); unlink (file); if (!ok) exit (1); ok = (0 <= (fd = open (file, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0444)) && close (fd) == 0 && utimes (file, NULL) == 0); unlink (file); exit (!ok); } ]])], [gl_cv_func_working_utimes=yes], [gl_cv_func_working_utimes=no], [gl_cv_func_working_utimes=no])]) if test $gl_cv_func_working_utimes = yes; then AC_DEFINE([HAVE_WORKING_UTIMES], [1], [Define if utimes works properly. ]) fi ])