>From: Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>The only description of the fields I can come up with is SuS v2:

>http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/glossary.html#tag_004_000_121

>Cheers,

>Matt

>On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:50:25PM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
>>
>> 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 ?


A good idea is to just check what Solaris is doing as it behaves as UNIX
always did with UFS.

If you truncate a file, then of course the mtime gets updated. As for the
FS code there is no difference whether the file size is > 0 or == 0 before
the most reasonable behavior is to update mtime always when the file gets
truncated.

Jörg

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