1 # Detect some bugs in glibc's implementation of utimes.
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9 # See if we need to work around bugs in glibc's implementation of
10 # utimes from 2003-07-12 to 2003-09-17.
11 # First, there was a bug that would make utimes set mtime
12 # and atime to zero (1970-01-01) unconditionally.
13 # Then, there was code to round rather than truncate.
14 # Then, there was an implementation (sparc64, Linux-2.4.28, glibc-2.3.3)
15 # that didn't honor the NULL-means-set-to-current-time semantics.
16 # Finally, there was also a version of utimes that failed on read-only
17 # files, while utime worked fine (linux-2.2.20, glibc-2.2.5).
19 # From Jim Meyering, with suggestions from Paul Eggert.
21 AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_UTIMES],
23 AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) dnl for cross-compiles
24 AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether the utimes function works],
25 [gl_cv_func_working_utimes],
26 [AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
27 #include <sys/types.h>
40 inorder (time_t a, time_t b, time_t c)
42 return a <= b && b <= c;
49 char const *file = "conftest.utimes";
50 /* On OS/2, file timestamps must be on or after 1980 in local time,
51 with an even number of seconds. */
52 static struct timeval timeval[2] = {{315620000 + 10, 10},
53 {315620000 + 1000000, 999998}};
55 /* Test whether utimes() essentially works. */
58 FILE *f = fopen (file, "w");
61 else if (fclose (f) != 0)
63 else if (utimes (file, timeval) != 0)
65 else if (lstat (file, &sbuf) != 0)
67 else if (!(sbuf.st_atime == timeval[0].tv_sec
68 && sbuf.st_mtime == timeval[1].tv_sec))
70 if (unlink (file) != 0)
74 /* Test whether utimes() with a NULL argument sets the file's timestamp
75 to the current time. Use 'fstat' as well as 'time' to
76 determine the "current" time, to accommodate NFS file systems
77 if there is a time skew between the host and the NFS server. */
79 int fd = open (file, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0644);
85 struct stat st0, st1, st2;
86 if (time (&t0) == (time_t) -1)
88 else if (fstat (fd, &st0) != 0)
90 else if (utimes (file, timeval) != 0
92 /* OS/2 kLIBC utimes fails on opened files. */
94 || utimes (file, timeval) != 0
95 || (fd = open (file, O_WRONLY)) < 0))
97 else if (utimes (file, NULL) != 0
99 /* OS/2 kLIBC utimes fails on opened files. */
101 || utimes (file, NULL) != 0
102 || (fd = open (file, O_WRONLY)) < 0))
104 else if (fstat (fd, &st1) != 0)
106 else if (write (fd, "\n", 1) != 1)
108 else if (fstat (fd, &st2) != 0)
110 else if (time (&t2) == (time_t) -1)
114 int m_ok_POSIX = inorder (t0, st1.st_mtime, t2);
115 int m_ok_NFS = inorder (st0.st_mtime, st1.st_mtime, st2.st_mtime);
116 if (! (st1.st_atime == st1.st_mtime))
118 if (! (m_ok_POSIX || m_ok_NFS))
124 if (unlink (file) != 0)
128 /* Test whether utimes() with a NULL argument works on read-only files. */
130 int fd = open (file, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0444);
133 else if (close (fd) != 0)
135 else if (utimes (file, NULL) != 0)
137 if (unlink (file) != 0)
144 [gl_cv_func_working_utimes=yes],
145 [gl_cv_func_working_utimes=no],
147 # Guess yes on musl systems.
148 *-musl*) gl_cv_func_working_utimes="guessing yes" ;;
149 # Guess no on native Windows.
150 mingw*) gl_cv_func_working_utimes="guessing no" ;;
151 *) gl_cv_func_working_utimes="$gl_cross_guess_normal" ;;
156 case "$gl_cv_func_working_utimes" in
158 AC_DEFINE([HAVE_WORKING_UTIMES], [1], [Define if utimes works properly.])