From 7e0c2b9a59a610454875340e315d93448fffdb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:36:03 -0700 Subject: touch: work around ntfs-3g bug * gnulib: Update, for utimensat fix. * NEWS: Improve wording about touch fixes. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Stuart Citrin. --- NEWS | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dd2ad6d24..12d5b6c8a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- make tail stop tracking additions to "b". [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] - touch -a once again guarantees that a file's change time is - adjusted, working around a bug in current Linux kernels. + touch -a and touch -m could trigger bugs in some file systems, such + as xfs or ntfs-3g, and fail to update timestamps. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1] wc now prints counts atomically so that concurrent -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf