diff -urNp coreutils-6.12-orig/lib/utimens.c coreutils-6.12/lib/utimens.c

--- coreutils-6.12-orig/lib/utimens.c	2008-06-06 12:49:08.000000000 +0200

+++ coreutils-6.12/lib/utimens.c	2008-06-06 12:52:24.000000000 +0200

@@ -103,6 +103,17 @@ gl_futimens (int fd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,

   if (fd < 0)

     {

       int result = utimensat (AT_FDCWD, file, timespec, 0);

+# ifdef __linux__

+       /* Work around what might be a kernel bug:

+        http://bugzilla.redhat.com/442352

+        http://bugzilla.redhat.com/449910

+        It appears that utimensat can mistakenly return 280 rather

+        than 0 to indicate success.

+        FIXME: remove in 2010 or whenever the offending kernels

+        are no longer in common use.  */

+       if (0 < result)

+         errno = ENOSYS;

+# endif

       if (result == 0 || errno != ENOSYS)

         return result;

     }

@@ -110,6 +121,17 @@ gl_futimens (int fd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,

 #if HAVE_FUTIMENS

   {

     int result = futimens (fd, timespec);

+# ifdef __linux__

+       /* Work around what might be a kernel bug:

+        http://bugzilla.redhat.com/442352

+        http://bugzilla.redhat.com/449910

+        It appears that utimens can mistakenly return 280 rather

+        than 0 to indicate success.

+        FIXME: remove in 2010 or whenever the offending kernels

+        are no longer in common use.  */

+    if (0 < result)

+       errno = ENOSYS;

+# endif

     if (result == 0 || errno != ENOSYS)

       return result;

   }

diff -urNp coreutils-6.12-orig/tests/Makefile.am coreutils-6.12/tests/Makefile.am

--- coreutils-6.12-orig/tests/Makefile.am	2008-06-05 10:52:49.000000000 +0200

+++ coreutils-6.12/tests/Makefile.am	2008-06-05 13:23:02.000000000 +0200

@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ TESTS =						\

   misc/tty-eof					\

   misc/unexpand					\

   misc/uniq					\

+  misc/utimensat-touchcp  \

   chmod/c-option				\

   chmod/equal-x					\

   chmod/equals					\

diff -urNp coreutils-6.12-orig/tests/misc/utimensat-touchcp coreutils-6.12/tests/misc/utimensat-touchcp

--- coreutils-6.12-orig/tests/misc/utimensat-touchcp	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100

+++ coreutils-6.12/tests/misc/utimensat-touchcp	2008-06-05 13:22:01.000000000 +0200

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@

+#!/bin/sh

+# Make sure touch -r and cp -pr works without hanging.

+

+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then

+  set -x

+  touch --version

+  cp --version

+fi

+

+. $srcdir/test-lib.sh

+

+touch a.old || framework_failure

+sleep 1

+

+fail=0

+

+#check for touch

+touch -r a.old a || fail=1

+ls -l --full-time a >time1

+ls -l --full-time a.old >time2

+sed -i 's/a.old/a/' time2

+cmp time1 time2 > /dev/null 2>&1 || fail=1

+test $fail = 1 && diff time1 time2 2> /dev/null

+

+#check for cp

+cp -pr a.old b || fail=1

+ls -l --full-time a >time1

+ls -l --full-time a.old >time2

+sed -i 's/a.old/a/' time2

+cmp time1 time2 > /dev/null 2>&1 || fail=1

+test $fail = 1 && diff time1 time2 2> /dev/null

+

+(exit $fail); exit $fail