# Detect some bugs in glibc's implementation of utimes. # serial 3 dnl Copyright (C) 2003-2005, 2009-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. # See if we need to work around bugs in glibc's implementation of # utimes from 2003-07-12 to 2003-09-17. # First, there was a bug that would make utimes set mtime # and atime to zero (1970-01-01) unconditionally. # Then, there was code to round rather than truncate. # Then, there was an implementation (sparc64, Linux-2.4.28, glibc-2.3.3) # that didn't honor the NULL-means-set-to-current-time semantics. # Finally, there was also a version of utimes that failed on read-only # files, while utime worked fine (linux-2.2.20, glibc-2.2.5). # # From Jim Meyering, with suggestions from Paul Eggert. AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_UTIMES], [ AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether the utimes function works], [gl_cv_func_working_utimes], [ AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include static int inorder (time_t a, time_t b, time_t c) { return a <= b && b <= c; } int main () { int result = 0; char const *file = "conftest.utimes"; static struct timeval timeval[2] = {{9, 10}, {999999, 999999}}; /* Test whether utimes() essentially works. */ { struct stat sbuf; FILE *f = fopen (file, "w"); if (f == NULL) result |= 1; else if (fclose (f) != 0) result |= 1; else if (utimes (file, timeval) != 0) result |= 2; else if (lstat (file, &sbuf) != 0) result |= 1; else if (!(sbuf.st_atime == timeval[0].tv_sec && sbuf.st_mtime == timeval[1].tv_sec)) result |= 4; if (unlink (file) != 0) result |= 1; } /* Test whether utimes() with a NULL argument sets the file's timestamp to the current time. Use 'fstat' as well as 'time' to determine the "current" time, to accommodate NFS file systems if there is a time skew between the host and the NFS server. */ { int fd = open (file, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0644); if (fd < 0) result |= 1; else { time_t t0, t2; struct stat st0, st1, st2; if (time (&t0) == (time_t) -1) result |= 1; else if (fstat (fd, &st0) != 0) result |= 1; else if (utimes (file, timeval) != 0) result |= 2; else if (utimes (file, NULL) != 0) result |= 8; else if (fstat (fd, &st1) != 0) result |= 1; else if (write (fd, "\n", 1) != 1) result |= 1; else if (fstat (fd, &st2) != 0) result |= 1; else if (time (&t2) == (time_t) -1) result |= 1; else { int m_ok_POSIX = inorder (t0, st1.st_mtime, t2); int m_ok_NFS = inorder (st0.st_mtime, st1.st_mtime, st2.st_mtime); if (! (st1.st_atime == st1.st_mtime)) result |= 16; if (! (m_ok_POSIX || m_ok_NFS)) result |= 32; } if (close (fd) != 0) result |= 1; } if (unlink (file) != 0) result |= 1; } /* Test whether utimes() with a NULL argument works on read-only files. */ { int fd = open (file, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0444); if (fd < 0) result |= 1; else if (close (fd) != 0) result |= 1; else if (utimes (file, NULL) != 0) result |= 64; if (unlink (file) != 0) result |= 1; } return result; } ]])], [gl_cv_func_working_utimes=yes], [gl_cv_func_working_utimes=no], [gl_cv_func_working_utimes=no])]) if test $gl_cv_func_working_utimes = yes; then AC_DEFINE([HAVE_WORKING_UTIMES], [1], [Define if utimes works properly. ]) fi ])