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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:45:36 -0500
From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
To: julian@GINA.UNI-MUENSTER.DE
In-Reply-To: Julian F. Reschke's message of Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:36:27 MET DST <9301271236.AA15449@math.uni-muenster.de>
Subject: utime()
>Proposal: let's define a new opcode for Fcntl that basically implements
>the POSIX utime() function. Advantages: no need for changes in the kernel.
The behavior of Fcntl can't be changed without changing the kernel.
>The library implementation for utime() could then do something like that:
>
>- setup the utimbuf struct
>- if (MiNT_is_running): try the new Fcntl (check return for EINVFN)
>- otherwise use Fdatime().
Yes, it should do that...but it will need kernel support (which may
already exist as far as I know).
cheers,
entropy