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Diffstat (limited to 'tests/test_driver.pl')
| -rw-r--r-- | tests/test_driver.pl | 35 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tests/test_driver.pl b/tests/test_driver.pl index 7dd7fda..001d247 100644 --- a/tests/test_driver.pl +++ b/tests/test_driver.pl @@ -785,19 +785,40 @@ sub remove_directory_tree_inner return 1; } +# We used to use this behavior for this function: +# +#sub touch +#{ +# local (@filenames) = @_; +# local ($now) = time; +# local ($file); +# +# foreach $file (@filenames) +# { +# utime ($now, $now, $file) +# || (open (TOUCHFD, ">> $file") && close (TOUCHFD)) +# || &error ("Couldn't touch $file: $!\n", 1); +# } +# return 1; +#} +# +# But this behaves badly on networked filesystems where the time is +# skewed, because it sets the time of the file based on the _local_ +# host. Normally when you modify a file, it's the _remote_ host that +# determines the modtime, based on _its_ clock. So, instead, now we open +# the file and write something into it to force the remote host to set +# the modtime correctly according to its clock. +# + sub touch { local (@filenames) = @_; - local ($now) = time; local ($file); - foreach $file (@filenames) - { - utime ($now, $now, $file) - || (open (TOUCHFD, ">> $file") && close (TOUCHFD)) - || &error ("Couldn't touch $file: $!\n", 1); + foreach $file (@filenames) { + (open(T, ">> $file") && print(T "\n") && close(T)) + || &error("Couldn't touch $file: $!\n", 1); } - return 1; } # open a file, write some stuff to it, and close it. |