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From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] [RFC] NFS: Support the AT_NO_TIMES and AT_STRICT fstatat flags
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:47:41 -0400
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Hello!

On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> +	if (!(flags & AT_NO_TIMES))
> +		goto do_revalidate;

This is already a shortcoming of the less-fine grained control.
Suppose a normal ls -l command, it does not care about atimes,
only mtimes, but there is no way to specify it and NFS only
cares if atimes were requested or not.

Bye,
     Oleg