[PATCH 0/2] yet another attempt to fix the ctime and mtime issue

2008-01-12 Thread Anton Salikhmetov
The POSIX standard requires that the ctime and mtime fields for memory-mapped files should be updated after a write reference to the memory region where the file data is mapped. At least FreeBSD 6.2 and HP-UX 11i implement this properly. Linux does not, which leads to data loss problems in

[PATCH 0/2] yet another attempt to fix the ctime and mtime issue

2008-01-12 Thread Anton Salikhmetov
The POSIX standard requires that the ctime and mtime fields for memory-mapped files should be updated after a write reference to the memory region where the file data is mapped. At least FreeBSD 6.2 and HP-UX 11i implement this properly. Linux does not, which leads to data loss problems in