From 01e4f003a08f8235b0e01d2b5129080d346cc18c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:29:40 -0700 Subject: touch: fix ctime regression in 'touch -a' Regression introduced in coreutils 8.1 due to a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of utimensat with mtime of UTIME_OMIT. * gnulib: Update to latest, to pick up utimensat fix. * NEWS: Mention the change. * THANKS: Update. Reported by John Stanley. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f0b71a8c8..e0287cca5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- a commmand of the above form would fail for all subdirectories. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0] + touch -a once again guarantees that a file's change time is + adjusted, working around a bug in current Linux kernels. + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1] + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.2 (2009-12-11) [stable] -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2