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diff --git a/tests/ChangeLog b/tests/ChangeLog index ee4b4a3..dd763b1 100644 --- a/tests/ChangeLog +++ b/tests/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ 1999-09-15 Paul D. Smith <psmith@gnu.org> + * test_driver.pl (touch): Rewrite this function. Previously it + used to use utime() to hard-set the time based on the current + local clock. This fails badly on networked filesystems where the + FS server clock is skewed from the local clock: normally modifying + a file causes it to get a mod time based on the _server's_ clock. + Hard-setting it based on the _local_ clock causes gratuitous + errors and makes the tests unreliable except on local filesystems. + The new function will simply modify the file, allowing the + filesystem to set the mod time as it sees fit. + * scripts/features/parallelism: The second test output could change depending on how fast some scripts completed; use "sleep" to force the order we want. |