[klibc] mips64el stat/time/…? problem

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi Ben,

>Thorsten: I've attached a patch which I tested briefly in QEMU.  Let me
>know if this works for you.

sorry for the delay. I was able to test this on eller today.
To reproduce the issue, this was needed, because the value
read was a nanosecond field and so the test didn’t always fail:

(sid_mips64el-dchroot)tg at eller:~$ while sleep  0.1; do :>b; ./mksh -c 'test a -nt b; echo $?'; done

Unpatched, this produced runs of (4 to 7) zeros and (3 to 4) ones;
patched, it produced all ones.

I cannot add this variant to the upstream testsuite as a subsecond
sleep is not guaranteed, but I can add it to the Debian tests.

Thanks for fixing this; I’ll upload mksh again once this is in sid.
Which probably should be soon considering the freeze…

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
“It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as
 seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
 seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
	-- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2