From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Q: When do files in /proc change their times?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:13:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d377250w.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8BF2FD020000A1000097D2@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> (Ulrich Windl's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:22:53 +0200")
"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
> I have a simple question: When do files in /proc show changed modification
> times?
Whenever the inode is dropped from the inode cache and then recreated.
The proc fs always uses the current time to set the inode times.
Andreas.
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2012-04-16 8:22 Q: When do files in /proc change their times? Ulrich Windl
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