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From: "Klaus S. Madsen" <ksm@42.dk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Anton Salikhmetov <salikhmetov@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC][BUG] updating the ctime and mtime time stamps in msync()
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:01:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080109210108.GB27738@hjernemadsen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080109155015.4d2d4c1d@cuia.boston.redhat.com>

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 15:50:15 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Specifically, the ctime and mtime time stamps do change
> > when modifying the mapped memory and do not change when
> > there have been no write references between the mmap()
> > and msync() system calls.
> 
> As long as the ctime and mtime stamps change when the memory is
> written to, what exactly is the problem?

A "not" is missing from the sentence above. The quote above should have
read:

> > Specifically, the ctime and mtime time stamps do _not_ change when
> > modifying the mapped memory and do not change when there have been
> > no write references between the mmap() and msync() system calls.

So essentially the problem is that mtime stamps are _never_ changed when
the file is only modified through mmap. Not even when calling msync().

-- 
Kind regards,
	Klaus S. Madsen

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-09 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-07 17:54 Anton Salikhmetov, Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-09 11:32 ` Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-09 11:47   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2008-01-09 12:22   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2008-01-09 14:41   ` Jesper Juhl
2008-01-09 15:31     ` Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-09 21:28   ` Peter Staubach
2008-01-09 20:50 ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-09 21:01   ` Klaus S. Madsen [this message]
2008-01-09 21:06   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-09 22:06     ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-09 22:19       ` Peter Staubach
2008-01-09 22:33       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2008-01-09 23:41         ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-10  0:03           ` Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-10  8:51             ` Jakob Oestergaard
2008-01-10 10:53               ` Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-10 15:45                 ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-10 15:56                   ` Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-10 16:07                     ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-10 16:40                       ` Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-10 16:52                         ` Peter Staubach
2008-01-10 16:46                       ` Peter Staubach
2008-01-10 20:48           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-10  0:48       ` Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-10  0:40   ` Anton Salikhmetov
2008-01-09 21:18 ` Peter Staubach

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