libc 2.31/i686: operation not permitted for preserving timestamps

[Elan Ruusamäe]

is this fix for this problem?

- 
https://github.com/pld-linux/util-linux/commit/67a912cd50464cae095fbdb7b3cf90daf495fb90

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http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2020-March/025883.html


On 16.03.2020 23:46, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> i've got reports that cp -a (or just cp --preserve=timestamps) fails 
> on i686 and glibc 2.31
>
>
> from strace i've grabbed such error:
>
>
>        utimensat_time64(4, NULL, [{tv_sec=1584393052, tv_nsec=0} /* 
> 2020-03-16T23:10:52+0200 */, {tv_sec=1584393052, tv_nsec=0} /* 
> 2020-03-16T23:10:52+0200 */], 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
>
>
> i believe it's related to large inode on fd=4 and glibc just reports 
> it incorrectly
>
>
> ```
> + ls -ldi locale-archive 
> /var/tmp/glibc-localedb-2.30.0-root-root/usr/lib/locale
>     790264 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Mar 16  2020 
> /var/tmp/glibc-localedb-2.30.0-root-root/usr/lib/locale
> 4379091441 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13754080 Mar 16  2020 locale-archive
> + cp '--preserve=timestamps' locale-archive 
> /var/tmp/glibc-localedb-2.30.0-root-root/usr/lib/locale
> cp: preserving times for 
> '/var/tmp/glibc-localedb-2.30.0-root-root/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive': 
> Operation not permitted
>
> ```
>