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Title: posixmodule uses utimes, which is broken in glibc-2.3.2
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Components: Extension Modules Versions: Python 2.3
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Status: closed Resolution:
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Assigned To: nnorwitz Nosy List: doko, nnorwitz
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Created on 2003-08-10 09:34 by doko, last changed 2022-04-10 16:10 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg17693 - (view) Author: Matthias Klose (doko) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-08-10 09:34
Maybe this is category 'Build' ... at least it results
in '1970/01/01-01:00:01' timestamps on all files copied
by distutils on glibc-2.3.2 based systems (2.3.1 seems
to be ok).

Disabling the detection of the utimes function in
configure works around this. As this function is a
wrapper around utime, why not use this one directly? Or
check, if utimes correctly works.
msg17694 - (view) Author: Matthias Klose (doko) * (Python committer) Date: 2003-08-10 10:54
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for an utimes check see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/debian-glibc-200308/msg00115.html
msg17695 - (view) Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-10-02 05:54
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Matthias, can this be closed?  Is this still relevant?
msg17696 - (view) Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) * (Python committer) Date: 2006-01-25 06:26
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Closing due to inactivity.
msg17697 - (view) Author: Matthias Klose (doko) * (Python committer) Date: 2006-01-25 08:36
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It is not necessary for glibc-2.3.5 and more recent
versions, older glibc versions still have the problem.
msg17698 - (view) Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) * (Python committer) Date: 2006-01-25 08:41
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Thanks for the comment.  I don't think we will try to cater
to this bug in glibc.

BTW, are you still working on Debian a lot?  Are there many
outstanding bugs wrt python?
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-10 16:10:34adminsetgithub: 39040
2003-08-10 09:34:23dokocreate