UnixWare 2.03 patch

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:14:15PM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Tim Rice wrote:
> > > Here is a patch to help UnixWare 2.03 along.
> > > 
> > > No if we could only change utimes() back to utime() in scp.c & sftp-server.c
> > > we would have a working versin for Unixware 2.03 and SCO 3.2v4.2
> > > 
> > One could always write a utime() emulation via utimes().
> 
> Yes, but this leaves my previous question unanswered: why bother with
> emulating utimes() via utime(), instead of using the more portable utime()
> directly?
> 
> The only benefit of utimes() is the millisecond resolution, which
> OpenSSH doesn't use (at least not last time I checked, tv_usec was
> explicitely set to 0).
> 
Either way... We will need to emulate one or the other.  Personally I
could careless which one we use.  Again, the only reason why it's
utimes() is because sftp-server.c used it and I asked if we could be
consistant.  And a lot more platforms support it due to it's BSD
history.  It's just oddballs like SCO that don't tend to implement
complete BSD API alongside SysV.

- Ben