From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch?] truncate and timestamps
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 21:07:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030523210748.A1018@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8mRUVSAXw-B@khms.westfalen.de>; from kaih@khms.westfalen.de on Fri, May 23, 2003 at 08:02:00PM +0200
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 08:02:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 May 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > >
> > > On the other hand, my question was really a different one:
> > > do we want to follow POSIX, also in the silly requirement
> > > that truncate only sets mtime when the size changes, while
> > > O_TRUNC and ftruncate always set mtime.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/ftruncate.html
>
> Is it really so hard to look it up that we need to spout FUD instead?
Look up ftruncate, look up truncate, loop up open with O_TRUNC and compare.
You will understand what the discussion is about.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-23 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-23 0:17 Andries.Brouwer
2003-05-23 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-23 1:17 ` viro
2003-05-23 2:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-23 5:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-23 5:25 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-23 3:14 ` David Schwartz
2003-05-26 23:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-27 1:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-23 18:02 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-05-23 19:07 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
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2003-05-22 19:09 Andries.Brouwer
2003-05-22 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
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