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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch?] truncate and timestamps
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:42:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030522194211.4191e473.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030523011751.GC14406@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
>
> POSIX can take a hike

aye.  But given a choice we should continue to do what 2.4 did.

I assume every foo_truncate() is doing

        inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
        mark_inode_dirty(inode);

and as Andries says, we can probably pull all that up to the VFS level.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-23  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-23  0:17 [patch?] truncate and timestamps Andries.Brouwer
2003-05-23  0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-23  1:17   ` viro
2003-05-23  2:42     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-05-23  5:11       ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-23  5:25         ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-23  3:14     ` David Schwartz
2003-05-26 23:42     ` Alan Cox
2003-05-27  1:17       ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-23 18:02   ` Kai Henningsen
2003-05-23 19:07     ` Andries Brouwer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-22 19:09 Andries.Brouwer
2003-05-22 23:20 ` Andrew Morton

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