[Samba] mount.cifs -> Unisys MCP Mainframe -- Linux touch command "setting times of `testfile.txt': Permission denied"

[Tim Lank]

the mount.cifs is from (cifs-utils-4.8.1-2.el6.x86_64)


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Tim Lank <timlank at timlank.com> wrote:

> I've got a share from a Unisys MCP Mainframe mounted with mount.cifs from
> RHEL 6.1 (samba-common-3.5.6-86.el6.x86_64).
>
> when I try to touch a file, it creates the file, but reports an error -
> "setting times of `testfile.txt': Permission denied"
>
> strace on the touch command shows that it is erroring out on the
> utimensat() call
>
> utimensat(0, NULL, NULL, 0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>
> Documentation from the Unisys Mainframe can be found here....
>
> http://public.support.unisys.com/aseries/docs/clearpath-mcp-12.0/pdf/70118328-103.pdf
> Pages:  C-2 and C3 show what POSIX functions are/not supported
> utime() and utimensat() are not among the supported functions listed there.
>
>
> Is there any combination of parameters to mount.cifs that can be used that
> would prevent touch from reporting this error?
>
>
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