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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:34:29 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: regression in utime
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:46:17PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>I'm not sure when this regressed, but in comparing logs of coreutils
>testsuite runs, sometime between 1.5.12 and 1.5.14 utime() was broken
>with regards to fifos.  It is still broken in the 20050412 snapshot:
>
>$ mkfifo foo
>$ touch foo
>touch: setting times of `foo': Invalid argument
>
>It used to return successfully (I'm not sure whether it actually
>touched times in 1.5.12, only that it didn't die with EINVAL).

This should successfully touch foo in the latest snapshot.

cgf

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