touch: work around ntfs-3g bug

* gnulib: Update, for utimensat fix.
* NEWS: Improve wording about touch fixes.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Stuart Citrin.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dd2ad6d248fb2959108739d48415b4922d95f85c..12d5b6c8a43f526b15f317c694fe838a714e39dd 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   make tail stop tracking additions to "b".
   [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
 
-  touch -a once again guarantees that a file's change time is
-  adjusted, working around a bug in current Linux kernels.
+  touch -a and touch -m could trigger bugs in some file systems, such
+  as xfs or ntfs-3g, and fail to update timestamps.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]
 
   wc now prints counts atomically so that concurrent

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 86be25230b0502471ace499915ad7726b10e97c9..b5adaeb2155fa941d94fba9571405498ffe98ac5 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -556,6 +556,7 @@ Steven Mocking                      ufo@quicknet.nl
 Steven Parkes                       smparkes@smparkes.net
 Steven Schveighoffer                schveiguy@yahoo.com
 Steven P Watson                     steven@magelico.net
+Stuart Citrin                       ctrn3e8@gmail.com
 Stuart Kemp                         skemp@peter.bmc.com
 Stuart Shelton                      stuart@shelton.me
 Sven Joachim                        svenjoac@gmx.de

diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index e0bf16819c83c3ef1d11bf373f5f90a1f09c534c..0e3e69f9f9b31a7d8516bb9699471db6a43bd3c8 160000 (submodule)
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit e0bf16819c83c3ef1d11bf373f5f90a1f09c534c
+Subproject commit 0e3e69f9f9b31a7d8516bb9699471db6a43bd3c8