From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.18 no timestamp update on modified mmapped files
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:17:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020612171708.B87@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D059D5E.C9F9F659@zip.com.au> <11378.1023779257@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <3D05A6A1.328B7FDE@zip.com.au>
Hi!
> > >It is specifically referring to updates via mmap! "a write reference
> > >to the mapped region". This is the mmap documentation.
> >
> > I saw "write reference" and my brain translated that to "write()". I
> > blame the long weekend.
>
> That'll be a left-brain/write-brain thing.
>
> I think it's too late to fix this in 2.4. If we did, a person
> could develop and test an application on 2.4.21, ship it, then
> find that it fails on millions of 2.4.17 machines.
It is a bug, so it should be fixed. If someone develops on FreeBSD then
he'll be surprised it does not work on Linux... Stable should mean "only
bugfixes" and this certainly looks like a bug.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-13 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-11 5:33 2.4.18 no timestamp update on modified mmapped files Keith Owens
2002-06-11 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-11 6:29 ` Keith Owens
2002-06-11 6:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-11 7:07 ` Keith Owens
2002-06-11 7:28 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-11 9:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-06-11 9:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-11 9:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-06-12 7:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-12 7:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-12 14:52 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-06-13 2:25 ` jw schultz
2002-06-13 9:58 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-06-13 10:40 ` jw schultz
2002-06-11 18:09 ` Robert Love
2002-06-12 17:17 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-06-11 6:39 ` Andrew Morton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-15 5:24 Kevin Easton
2002-06-15 8:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-06-15 9:12 ` Kevin Easton
2002-06-15 9:23 ` Russell King
2002-06-16 4:35 Kevin Easton
2002-06-16 16:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-06-19 17:57 Randy.Dunlap
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