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Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:42:53 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: more ctime bugs
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On Feb 17 13:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 13 04:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> > I see the new has_changed flag in the 20050211 snapshot.  But you still have to
> > add a call to touch_ctime() within the stat() family of calls if has_changed is
> > set, in order to comply with the required semantics; stat and lstat are not
> > allowed to return out-of-date timestamps.
> 
> You know that this contradicts the target to maintain speed on write?
> It's not done with adding a call to touch_ctime() to fstat, because
> that only affects the application which also has written to the file.
> If I read SUSv3 correctly, any call to stat/fstat/lstat on the file
> by any application would require to update the timestamp.  That's no
> fun.  I'm willing to simply ignore this.

I've called touch_ctime in fstat nevertheless.  It's a first approximation.


Corinna

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