Subject: Re: bug#8328: touch core-dumps

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:54:48 -0600

On 03/25/2011 07:20 AM, [email-masked] wrote:
> Hi 

> > This is a known issue, related to recent Solaris additions of
futimens support conflicting with gnulib workarounds for older utimens
causing an infinite recursion.  It has been partially dealt with in
coreutils 8.10 (if you configure from scratch on solaris 10, the problem
should go away), and completely dealt with in coreutils.git (the next
coreutils release will allow you to configure and build on solaris 9 and
still run on solaris 10).

> 
> I uninstalled SMCcoreu VERSION:8.9 and installed VERSION:8.10.
> Now touch works!

Thanks for the confirmation; I'm marking this bug complete.

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