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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:54:19 -0800
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
>  	struct timespec now;
> ...
> +	inode->i_ctime = now;

hm, that nonatomic assignment is racy wrt readers and, conceivably, other
writers.