From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755674AbYFCU32 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:29:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752490AbYFCU3S (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:29:18 -0400 Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.158]:55587 "EHLO po-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752443AbYFCU3R (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:29:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=og2ru12S/cASjwi38yNKyva52C21i6ydWdtxItUysOE2L+l7xDRIN91oURT8EqXUG/HCHRtKje/YDG430zF8Z9OZ3gjmQVk+KduCblmIGWk5j/lmQur17nbyjw6q+RKAlSMVtEz5FaG1f3gG+XE+0k+w9IpceMCOSrM4KiNCcP8= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:29:14 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v4] (patch) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, miklos@szeredi.hu, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jamie@shareable.org, drepper@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20080603132231.1430f812.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48454F1D.6060507@gmail.com> <4845A606.6070005@gmail.com> <20080603132231.1430f812.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:13:58 +0200 > Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> This patch fixes all of the utimensat() bugs outlined in my >> previous mail. >> >> I could have split the patch out into a few pieces, but given >> that it is not long, and all against a single file, I've made >> one patch. Let me know if you would like separate patches for >> the pieces below. > > Well I think it would have been better, really. > > Right now someone (apparently me) needs to take the text from > "utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v4] (overview)" and weave it > together with the text from "utimensat() non-conformances and fixes > [v4] (patch)" to produce a vaguely coherent changelog. > > It all would be much saner and cleaner if each of these changes was in > a self-contained diff which had its own standalone changelog, no? Okay -- let me take a shot at it. I'll try to get back to you in an hour or so. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html