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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 02:33:53 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.18 no timestamp update on modified mmapped files
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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.

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