IRC meeting 2011-07-27

2011-07-26 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, Another Wednesday is here -- which means we are having our weekly meeting, as usual at 19:00 UTC on #hurd (irc.freenode.net). Everyone is welcome to join and/or propose topics :-) -antrik-

Re: set_mtime/set_atime in term/users.c, really needed?

2011-07-26 Thread Roland McGrath
It's the usual mechanism of idleness detection. That doesn't necessarily mean we need to send it all the way to the underlyind node, though.

Re: set_mtime/set_atime in term/users.c, really needed?

2011-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
It's what Linux does at least. And Posix likely requires it. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed that term/users.c calls set_atime/mtime for each and > every io_write/read performed on a tty. This means for instance that > each keypress on the console

set_mtime/set_atime in term/users.c, really needed?

2011-07-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I've noticed that term/users.c calls set_atime/mtime for each and every io_write/read performed on a tty. This means for instance that each keypress on the console or via ssh will dirty the tty node and eventually lead to a disk write for the underlying node a few seconds later. Do we real