hi, The semantics of what is updated is usually on the man page for the specific system interface. There are also are some generic requirements with respect to stat i think. You can always ask the folks on the Austin Group reflector for more help regards Andrew
On Jan 25, 6:50pm in "ctime/mtime with dif", Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > > Hi, > > sometimes some tests fails, because mtime/ctime or atime is not > correct set. The problem are the VFS layer and the different filesystems, > they all have a different understand from when which field is to change. > > For example, if you truncate a zero length file to zero, VFS only > send a notifier that ctime has to be updated. ext2 will also update > mtime, reiserfs not. > > Is there a document describing the behaviour, to which I could point > our filesystem experts ? > > Thorsten > > -- > Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SuSE GmbH Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-- End of excerpt from Thorsten Kukuk
