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Comment 45 for bug 539814

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Nathan Stratton Treadway (nathanst) wrote : Re: [Bug 539814] Re: tar: futimens() with a bad file descriptor (AT_FDCWD) causes bootstrapping failure with kernels < 2.6.22

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 13:13:44 -0000, rollercoaster wrote:
> This also affects cp and touch from coreutils, maybe others.
>
> root@monster:~# mkdir bla
> root@monster:~# cp -a bla blubb
> cp: preserving times for `blubb': Bad file descriptor
> root@monster:~# touch bla
> touch: setting times of `bla': Bad file descriptor

(For what it's worth, LP: #552816 covers this gnulib/futimens()/old
kernel bug as it applies to coreutils .)

      Nathan