Hello Paul, I ran your code (twice to make sure) and in both cases it returned : last-modified times do not conform to: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_08 Cheers, Bertrand On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks, the key problem is the fourth time the breakpoint is hit, where > the output in your log looks like this: > > Breakpoint 3, Fverify_visited_file_modtime (buf=27021317) at fileio.c:5338 > 5338 if (timespec_cmp (mtime, b->modtime) == 0 > (gdb) p mtime > $7 = { > tv_sec = 1422018451, > tv_nsec = 132061000 > } > (gdb) p b->modtime > $8 = { > tv_sec = 1422018451, > tv_nsec = 40059000 > } > > The two time stamps should be the same, but the nanoseconds component > differ (the tv_sec components are the same, which is why we don't observe > any bugs in the strace output). > > I suspect a bug in the file system. Can you please try running the > attached program, with the current directory being that file system? It > should take about 2 seconds. You might try running it twice (it may depend > on whether the file already exists). >