From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: copy-file broken Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 08:42:06 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1062242292.7719.81.camel@localhost> <7263-Sat30Aug2003161842+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <1062280302.7720.89.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062312772 8408 80.91.224.253 (31 Aug 2003 06:52:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 31 08:52:50 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19tM4w-0004lS-00 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 08:52:50 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19tMD5-0002Hu-00 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:01:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19tM3F-0008Od-8V for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19tM2s-0008O9-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19tM2r-0008Np-Gd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.13.230.178] (helo=yxa.extundo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19tM2q-0008Je-Ql; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7V6g6dk024879 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 08:42:07 +0200 Original-To: Andre Spiegel X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030831:spiegel@gnu.org:dc2d4c54735cbce4 X-Hashcash: 0:030831:spiegel@gnu.org:dc2d4c54735cbce4 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030831:eliz@elta.co.il:250cc55e18b4f774 X-Hashcash: 0:030831:eliz@elta.co.il:250cc55e18b4f774 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030831:emacs-devel@gnu.org:e9edd86a2102d681 X-Hashcash: 0:030831:emacs-devel@gnu.org:e9edd86a2102d681 In-Reply-To: <1062280302.7720.89.camel@localhost> (Andre Spiegel's message of "Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:51:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16214 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16214 Andre Spiegel writes: > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 16:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> I cannot reproduce this with today's CVS HEAD on fencepost.gnu.org >> which claims to be >> >> Linux fencepost 2.4.20-19.9smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 15 17:04:18 EDT 2003 i686 unknown >> >> is it possible that this is some library bug? Emacs calls `utimes' >> to set the file's times (see sysdep.c:set_file_times). > > I'm seeing the error with today's HEAD, libc6 2.3.2-2 (debian package), > doing > > (copy-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs") > (expand-file-name "~/new") nil 'keep-time) > > The file ~/new has date 1970-01-01 after this. > > libc6 on fencepost is 2.2.5-11.5, so this might indeed be the reason. > > Simon, could you tell us which version of the C library you've been > using? I'm using 2.3.2-4 (debiab unstable). Sounds like a libc problem.