Getting rid of portable branch (Was: [PATCH 3/6] Fall back on utimes if futimes is not available)

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Wed May 6 10:17:16 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 12:26 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Almost exactly that is already on the portable branch.

I would like to get rid of the portable branch. It is only there for
really ancient glibc versions (which don't have futimens). I do still
update the branch and test it against RHEL5 just before each release.
But my intention is to do it one last time for the next 0.162 release,
and then just get rid of it.

Nobody really should be using it unless they are using glibc <= 2.5,
kernel <= 2.6.18 or gcc < 4.4. Hopefully by now those are really ancient
memory.

Cheers,

Mark


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