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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:41:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4][SPARC64] fix sys32_utimes(somefile, NULL)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:23:06 +0200

> This patch fixes utimes(somefile, NULL) syscalls on sparc64 kernel with
> 32-bit userland - use of uninitialized value resulted in making random
> timestamps, which confused e.g. sudo.
> It has been already fixed (by davem) in linux-2.6 tree 30 months ago.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org>

Thanks a lot Jakub, I'll push this to Marcelo as soon as he
opens up his 2.4.x GIT tree.