Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265972AbUFOVyK (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:54:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265981AbUFOVyK (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:54:10 -0400 Received: from mtvcafw.sgi.com ([192.48.171.6]:28210 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265972AbUFOVyH (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:54:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:03:49 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Matthias Schniedermeyer Cc: aoliva@redhat.com, cesarb@nitnet.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support Message-Id: <20040615150349.352b9fb1.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040615193205.GA25131@citd.de> References: <20040612011129.GD1967@flower.home.cesarb.net> <20040614224006.GD1961@flower.home.cesarb.net> <20040615193205.GA25131@citd.de> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 728 Lines: 21 Matthias, replying to Alexandre: > > But utimes updates the inode modification time, so you can still tell > > something happened to the file. > > No. A less terse answer: Utimes modifies the inode ctime - time of last inode change. So, yes, you can still something happened to the file. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/