Subject: Re: bug#12820: gnulib testsuite failure in latest master

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:28:38 -0800

On 11/07/2012 09:06 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> stat64("test-utimens.ttmp", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> unlink("test-utimens.ttmp")             = 0
> nanosleep({0, 20000000}, NULL)          = 0
> open("test-utimens.ttmp", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 3
> close(3)                                = 0
> stat64("test-utimens.ttmp", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> unlink("test-utimens.ttmp")             = 0
> nanosleep({2, 0}, NULL)                 = 0

Well, there's something funny going on there, as this indicates that
your files' time stamps have only 1-second or even 2-second
resolution.  Were you running in a FAT file system or something like
that?  That might explain the problem.  If you were running in an
ordinary file system like ext4, the above is a bug and should get
tracked down and fixed.