Hello, I just built & ran a quick test on coreutils GIT. I received a SEGV on touch, and ran it under GDB. Looks like a loop. Cheers, cerdea@xango2:/build/buildd/coreutils$ gdb --args src/touch test GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-ubuntu Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: ... Reading symbols from /src/buildd/coreutils/src/touch...done. (gdb) set pagination off (gdb) r Starting program: /src/buildd/coreutils/src/touch test [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000004073dc in fdutimens (fd=0, file=0x0, timespec=0x0) at utimens.c:193 193 if (dup2 (fd, fd) != fd) (gdb) bt 3 full #0 0x00000000004073dc in fdutimens (fd=0, file=0x0, timespec=0x0) at utimens.c:193 adjusted_timespec = {{tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}} ts = 0x0 adjustment_needed = 0 st = #1 0x00000000004072aa in fdutimens (fd=0, file=0x0, timespec=0x0) at utimens.c:269 result = adjusted_timespec = {{tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}} ts = 0x0 adjustment_needed = st = {st_dev = 0, st_ino = 0, st_nlink = 0, st_mode = 0, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, __pad0 = 0, st_rdev = 0, st_size = 0, st_blksize = 0, st_blocks = 0, st_atim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, __unused = {0, 0, 0}} #2 0x00000000004072aa in fdutimens (fd=0, file=0x0, timespec=0x0) at utimens.c:269 result = adjusted_timespec = {{tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}} ts = 0x0 adjustment_needed = st = {st_dev = 0, st_ino = 0, st_nlink = 0, st_mode = 0, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, __pad0 = 0, st_rdev = 0, st_size = 0, st_blksize = 0, st_blocks = 0, st_atim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, __unused = {0, 0, 0}} (More stack frames follow...) (gdb) bt -5 full #38527 0x00000000004072aa in fdutimens (fd=0, file=0x0, timespec=0x0) at utimens.c:269 result = adjusted_timespec = {{tv_sec = 8589924528, tv_nsec = 0}, {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 4197073}} ts = 0x0 adjustment_needed = st = {st_dev = 4197129, st_ino = 140737354130624, st_nlink = 140737488345056, st_mode = 4160562656, st_uid = 32767, st_gid = 4294957064, __pad0 = 32767, st_rdev = 140737354129768, st_size = 255564379, st_blksize = 140737351936210, st_blocks = 0, st_atim = {tv_sec = 140737353950688, tv_nsec = 140733193388033}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 1}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 140737354129768, tv_nsec = 0}, __unused = {140737353950688, 1, 0}} #38528 0x00000000004072aa in fdutimens (fd=0, file=0x0, timespec=0x0) at utimens.c:269 result = adjusted_timespec = {{tv_sec = 5, tv_nsec = 0}, {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 140737351981093}} ts = 0x0 adjustment_needed = st = {st_dev = 29848917, st_ino = 2, st_nlink = 140737349750208, st_mode = 0, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 4152746968, __pad0 = 32767, st_rdev = 140737354115432, st_size = 0, st_blksize = 4294967295, st_blocks = 24, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1, tv_nsec = 6336552}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 1}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, __unused = {140737351953297, 1, 0}} #38529 0x00000000004024e2 in fdutimensat (fd=0, dir=-100, file=0x7fffffffde74 "test", ts=0x0, atflag=0) at fdutimensat.c:48 result = 1 #38530 0x0000000000401f21 in touch (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffdad8) at touch.c:166 ok = fd = 0 open_errno = 0 t = 0x7ffff7929f97 #38531 main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffdad8) at touch.c:432 c = date_set = ok = true flex_date = (gdb) list 188 if (fd < 0) 189 { 190 errno = EBADF; 191 return -1; 192 } 193 if (dup2 (fd, fd) != fd) 194 return -1; 195 } 196 197 /* Some Linux-based NFS clients are buggy, and mishandle time stamps (gdb) cerdea@xango2:/build/buildd/coreutils$ src/touch --version touch (GNU coreutils) 8.5.154-2dd21 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith. cerdea@xango2:/build/buildd/coreutils$ -- C de-Avillez IRC: hggdh This email (and any attachments) is digitally signed using GNUpg (http://gnupg.org). The public key is available at http://pgp.mit.edu. The key Id is 0xD3133E56.