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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 02:33:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D05C401.C9DFC996@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D05A6A1.328B7FDE@zip.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206111006300.1028-100000@localhost.localdomain>

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Oh, please reconsider that!  Doesn't loss of modification time
> approach data loss?  Surely we'll continue to fix any data loss
> issues in 2.4, and be grateful if you fixed this mmap modtime loss.
> 

Oh that's easy - I'll complete the patch and let Marcelo worry
about it.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-11  9:30 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 [this message]
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
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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